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The Deptford Trilogy

Robertson Davies
The Deptford Trilogy Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027789

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The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies Pdf

Gathering Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders together, The Deptford Trilogy has been hailed as a modern classic and is available as an eBook for the first time. Woven around a mysterious death, the novels trace the rich and varied, and fatefully linked, lives of Dunstan Ramsay, David Staunton, and Magnus Eisengrim. Davies has created a beguiling, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels, luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history, and magic and providing an exhilarating antidote to a world from where “the fear and dread and splendor of wonder have been banished.”

World of Wonders

Robertson Davies
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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771029875

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World of Wonders by Robertson Davies Pdf

World of Wonders, the concluding novel in Robertson Davies’ celebrated Deptford Trilogy, is available as an e-book for the first time. Called “a spectacular, soaring work, an astounding tour de force unequaled in recent literature,” World of Wonders follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim—the most illustrious magician of his age—who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the Wanless World of Wonders. “One of the great modern novelists.” Sunday Times

Manticore

Robertson Davies
Manticore Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 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

Fifth Business

Robertson Davies
Fifth Business Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141186151

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Fifth Business by Robertson Davies Pdf

The first book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Tempest-Tost

Robertson Davies
Tempest Tost Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 51,8 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.

Leaven of Malice

Robertson Davies
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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 Cunning Man

Robertson Davies
The Cunning Man Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.

Be Ready for the Lightning

Grace O'Connell
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Author : Grace O'Connell
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345811783

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Be Ready for the Lightning by Grace O'Connell Pdf

From acclaimed New Face of Fiction alumna Grace O'Connell, a suspenseful, poignant and provocative tale about violence, sibling love, friendship, heroism--all told through the lens of a young woman trapped in a hijacked bus. On the surface, Veda's life in Vancouver seems to be going just fine--at nearly thirty, she has a good job, lifelong friends, and a close bond with her brother, Conrad. But Conrad's violent behavior, a problem since he was a teen, is getting more and more serious, and Veda's ongoing commitment to watch out for him is pushing her to a breaking point. When Veda is injured as a bystander during one of Conrad's many fights, she knows it's time to leave Vancouver for a fresh start. She heads to New York, staying in the Manhattan apartment of old friends Al and Marie. Exploring the city, she swings between feeling hopeful and lost--until one day the bus she's on is hijacked by a sweet-faced gun-toting man named Peter. He instructs Veda and the other passengers to spray paint the bus windows black, and what ensues is a gripping and unpredictable hostage situation, the outcome of which will make Veda question everything she knows about herself and the nature of fear. Told with powerful immediacy and warmth, at once unsettling and engrossing, Be Ready for the Lightning is a story of violence, its attractions and repulsions; of love, loyalty and friendship; and of a young woman finding an unexpected kind of bravery.

The Cornish Trilogy

Robertson Davies
The Cornish Trilogy Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 55,5 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

Murther and Walking Spirits

Robertson Davies
Murther and Walking Spirits Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 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.

The Dark Portal

Robin Jarvis
The Dark Portal Book PDF

Author : Robin Jarvis
Publisher : Steerforth Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2025-02-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782694366

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The Dark Portal by Robin Jarvis Pdf

A new edition of the classic children's fantasy adventure set in a magical world of mice and rats in the sewers under London In a borough of London called Deptford there lived a community of mice. An old empty house was their home and in it they fashioned a comfortable life for themselves. People never disturbed them with traps, and because all the windows were boarded up, they never even saw a cat. The Deptford Mice live a cosy life in the skirting boards of an abandoned London house, with no humans or cats to disturb them. But something is lurking deep beneath the city. Something that threatens to destroy their cosy existence for good. In the dank sewers under the house lives a mysterious being, worshipped by a horde of bloodthirsty rats who cower in its presence... When a mouse called Albert Brown unwisely ventures down into the sewers one day, he uncovers a terrifying plot to awaken an ancient evil. Soon Albert's family and friends find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives. Summoning all their courage, they must confront treacherous enemies and foul sorcery in a battle to save London and the world from eternal darkness. The Dark Portal is the first book in the much-loved Deptford Mice trilogy of classic dark fantasy novels, set in a magical world of peaceful mice and bloodthirsty rats.

The Lyre of Orpheus

Robertson Davies
The Lyre of Orpheus Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 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.

High Spirits

Robertson Davies
High Spirits Book PDF

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 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.

The Oaken Throne

Robin Jarvis
The Oaken Throne Book PDF

Author : Robin Jarvis
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0340950498

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The Oaken Throne by Robin Jarvis Pdf

'The Oaken Throne' charts the dark wars between the bats and the squirrels. Vesper, a young bat, and Ysabelle, the squirrel maiden are unaware of the events that will sweep them along on a nightmarish journey.

The Crystal Prison

Robin Jarvis
The Crystal Prison Book PDF

Author : Robin Jarvis
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782694359

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The Crystal Prison by Robin Jarvis Pdf

A new illustrated edition of the classic children's fantasy adventure set in a magical world of mice and rats __________ 'Fast-paced, suspenseful ... [a] multitude of unforgettable characters' North-South Books 'The perfect stories for dark, cosy evenings. A once read, never forgotten series' Phil Hickes, author of The Haunting of Aveline Jones __________ An innocent young mouse lies murdered in a moonlit field as the screech of an owl echoes across the ripening corn... The Deptford Mice have escaped the horrors of Jupiter's lair and sought refuge in the countryside with a colony of fieldmice, busy preparing for the great summer festival. But soon they must face terrifying evil once more, as a series of mysterious crimes strike the peaceful fieldmouse community. At first the simple country rodents suspect Deptford newcomer Audrey - however, the truth turns out to be far more sinister.