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High Spirits

Robertson Davies
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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027826

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High Spirits by Robertson Davies Pdf

The fruits of an eighteen-year tradition of Massey College’s annual Gaudy Nights, Robertson Davies’ High Spirits still delights and amuses to this day. Published as an eBook for the first time. In the Introduction to this collection of charming stories, Robertson Davies notes we all need “ghosts as a dietary supplement . . . to stave off that most dreadful of modern ailments, the Rational Rickets.” In one tale, Mr. Davies introduces the ghost of Henrik Ibsen; in another, he brings us face to face with a bust of Charles Dickens, whose “scarlet lips . . . parted in a terrible smile” and whose “beard stirred in a hiccup of repletion.” Sixteen other apparitions manifest themselves, each rendered with Robertson Davies’ special touch–a bit of parody, a touch of true scariness–and all emanating from high spirits.

Tempest-Tost

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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027895

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Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies Pdf

The debut novel that launched Robertson Davies’ literary career, Tempest-Tost is a magnificent display of his legendary wit. The first novel in The Salterton Trilogy is now available as an eBook for the first time. An amateur production of The Tempest provides a colourful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love. Mathematics teacher Hector Mackilwraith, stirred and troubled by Shakespeare’s plays, falls in love with the beautiful Griselda Webster. When Griselda shows she has plans of her own, Hector despairs and tries to commit suicide on the play’s opening night.

The Cunning Man

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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027833

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The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies Pdf

The Cunning Man is a perceptive and entertaining memoir of a doctor’s life, available as an eBook for the first time. When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr. Jonathan Hullah—whose holistic work has earned him the label “Cunning Man” (for the wizard of the folk tradition)—wants to know why. The physician-cum-diagnostician’s search for answers compels him to look back over his own long life. He conjures vivid memories of the dazzling intellectual high jinks and compassionate philosophies of his circle, including flamboyant, mystical curate Charlie Iredale; cynical, quixotic professor Brocky Gilmartin; outrageous banker Darcy Dwyer; and jocular, muscular artist Pansy Todhunter. In compelling and hilarious scenes from the divine comedy of life, The Cunning Man reveals profound truths about being human. In Robertson Davies’ last novel, he returns to those issues which concerned him throughout his writing career–the nature of friendship, religion, faith, and artistic life–with his famous wit and humour and his usual rich characterization.

Conversations with Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies
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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878053840

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Conversations with Robertson Davies by Robertson Davies Pdf

Conversations with Robertson Davies is a long overdue anthology of interviews with Canada's most respected literary figure. Journalist, essayist, reviewer, playwright, and novelist, Robertson Davies has not only been a leading figure in Canadian literature since World War II, but, since the publication of Fifth Business in 1970, he has become known throughout the world. Conversations with Robertson Davies will be of interest both to the student of Canadian literature and culture and to the scholar examining Davies's plays and novels as well as to the general reader who would like to know more about the awesome man behind the Salterton and Deptford trilogies, What's Bred in the Bone, and The Lyre of Orpheus. A majority of this anthology of twenty-eight interviews has never before appeared in print. Along with these previously unpublished interviews, the reader finds a selection of the best print interviews: Tom Harpur of the Toronto Star proves Davies's spiritual beliefs, Ann Saddlemyer looks into his dreams, and author Terence M. Green questions Davies on the supernatural.

Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889242418

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Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast by Robertson Davies Pdf

Two plays from the 1940s by the most important Canadian playwright of the postwar period.

Murther and Walking Spirits

Robertson Davies
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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027840

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Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies Pdf

Murther & Walking Spirits is available as an eBook for the first time. “I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead.” So begins the unusual story of Connor “Gil” Gilmartin when he catches his wife in flagrante with the Sniffer, his former colleague and now his murderer. Though he is struck dead in the very first line of this novel, death is only the first indignity Gil is about to suffer. For he lingers on as a ghost, and from this bleak vantage–made even less endurable by the fact that he must spend the afterlife sitting beside his killer at a film festival–he is forced to view the exploits and failures of his ancestors, from the forerunners who sailed up the Hudson to Canada during the American Revolution right up to his university-professor parents.

Selected Plays

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Selected Plays Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131708062

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Selected Plays by Robertson Davies Pdf

Robertson Davies was a prolific playwright; a definitive collection of his plays would require several volumes. Included in this representative collection are some that have never been published for a wider audience, as well as various types of plays, from the conventional three-act form to libretti.

Manticore

Robertson Davies
Manticore Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771029868

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Manticore by Robertson Davies Pdf

The second novel in Robertson Davies’ critically acclaimed Deptford Trilogy, The Manticore is a fascinating exploration, by an exquisite stylist, of those regions beyond reason where monsters live. Available as an eBook for the first time. David Staunton, the son of Percy Boyd Staunton, travels to Switzerland. As he undergoes Jungian analysis for a lifetime of unhappiness and the trauma left by the death of his father, he repeatedly encounters a manticore—a monster with the head of a man, the body of lion, and the tail of a scorpion. “He is to say the least a mature and wise writer.” Anthony Burgess

Leaven of Malice

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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027901

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Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies Pdf

Winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Leaven of Malice is the second novel in Robertson Davies’ much-loved Salterton Trilogy. Available as an eBook for the first time. The following announcement appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman: “Professor and Mrs. Walter Vambrace are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Pearl Veronica, to Solomon Bridgetower, Esq., son of . . .” Although the malice that prompted this false engagement notice was aimed at three people only–Solly Bridgetower, Pearl Vambrace, and Gloster Ridley, the anxiety-ridden local newspaper editor–before the leaven of malice had ceased to work it had changed permanently, for good or ill, the lives of many citizens of Salterton. This is the second novel in The Salterton Trilogy (which also includes Tempest-Tost and A Mixture of Frailties).

The Lyre of Orpheus

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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027888

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The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies Pdf

Hailed as a literary masterpiece, Robertson Davies' The Cornish Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in The Lyre of Orpheus. Available as an eBook for the first time. There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish– connoisseur, collector, and notable eccentric–whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The grumpy, grimy, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete E.T.A. Hoffmann’s unfinished opera Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold; and the scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto. Complications both practical and emotional arise: the gypsy in Maria’s blood rises with a vengeance; Darcourt stoops to petty crime; and various others indulge in perjury, blackmail, and other unsavory pursuits. Hoffmann’s dictum, “the lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld,” seems to be all too true—especially when the long-hidden secrets of Francis Cornish himself are finally revealed. Baroque and deliciously funny, this third book in The Cornish Trilogy shows Robertson Davies at his very considerable best.

Happy Alchemy

Robertson Davies
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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780795352331

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Happy Alchemy by Robertson Davies Pdf

The acclaimed playwright, novelist, and author of Fifth Business explores the performing arts in this witty and insightful essay collection. Though best known for his award-winning fiction, Robertson Davies enjoyed a long and varied career as an actor, playwright, journalist and critic. Happy Alchemy collects an equally diverse range of Davies’ writings—including speeches, articles, prologues to plays, a ghost story set to music, and even a scenario for a film. In this eclectic volume, Davies shares his many musings on music, theatre, opera, and more. These pieces, many of them published here for the first time, touch on topics from Greek tragedy to Scottish Folklore and from Lewis Carroll to Carl Jung.

What's Bred in the Bone

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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027871

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What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies Pdf

Called “an altogether remarkable creation, his most accomplished novel to date” (The New York Times), What's Bred in the Bone is the second brilliant novel in Robertson Davies’ The Cornish Trilogy. Available as an eBook for the first time. Francis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, a master art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the events in Francis’s life were not always what they seemed. In this wonderfully ingenious portrait of an art expert and collector of international renown, Robertson Davies has created a spellbinding tale of artistic triumph and heroic deceit. It is a tale told in stylish, elegant prose, endowed with lavish portions of Davies’ wit and wisdom. “Davies’s make-believe universe has the appeal of a mystic’s vision… What’s Bred in the Bone is vintage Davies.” The Globe and Mail

At My Heart's Core & Overlaid

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At My Heart s Core Overlaid Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Simon & Pierre
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043326243

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At My Heart's Core & Overlaid by Robertson Davies Pdf

Contains two plays by acclaimed Canadian author and playwright Robertson Davies, At My Heart’s Core (1950) and Overlaid (1948).

The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies
The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : New York : Penguin ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140126597

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The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies by Robertson Davies Pdf

First published in the U.S. last year, this updated collection contains the best of Robertson Davies' newspaper and magazine articles written over the past 50 years. "Each piece is entertaining and enlightening. . . ".--Publishers Weekly.

The Cornish Trilogy

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The Cornish Trilogy Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027819

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The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies Pdf

Bringing together The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone, and The Lyre of Orpheus, The Cornish Trilogy is available as an eBook for the first time. Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and erudite scholars of the University of St. John and the Holy Ghost, this dazzling trilogy of novels lures you into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy that could only be the invention of the inimitable Robertson Davies. “A biting satire on the artistic muse . . . . This wonderful, witty novel should speak to a worldwide audience.”—Chicago Tribune