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Cornish Trilogy
Robertson Davies
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Description for Cornish Trilogy
Paperback. The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. Num Pages: 1152 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 52. Weight in Grams: 786.
The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. But in the realization of their duties, they find themselves drawn into Cornish's bizarre, secretive and mystical world. In this spellbinding trilogy a host of memorable characters - defrocked, mischief-making monks, half-mad professors, gypsies and musical geniuses - become entangled in a story that involves theft, perjury, scholarship, murder, love, and the squandering of plenty of cash.
The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. But in the realization of their duties, they find themselves drawn into Cornish's bizarre, secretive and mystical world. In this spellbinding trilogy a host of memorable characters - defrocked, mischief-making monks, half-mad professors, gypsies and musical geniuses - become entangled in a story that involves theft, perjury, scholarship, murder, love, and the squandering of plenty of cash.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1152
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241952610
SKU
9780241952610
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About Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario, in 1913. A novelist, playwright, literary critic and essayist, he received numerous awards for his work. It is as a writer of fiction that Robertson Davies achieved international recognition, with such books as The Salterton Trilogy (Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice and A Mixture of Frailties); The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders); The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize, and The Lyre of Orpheus); Murther & Walking Spirits, and The Cunning Man. Robertson Davies died in 1995.
Reviews for Cornish Trilogy
Davies combines elements of the fantastic with details of everyday life to show us a world in which the miraculous coexists with the mundane
New York Times
A first-rate storyteller and a real moralist with a crackling sense of humour
Newsweek
Nourishes the brain while it beguiles the senses
Time
One of the most remarkable achievements of contemporary fiction
Sunday Times
Deliciously readable
New York Times
New York Times
A first-rate storyteller and a real moralist with a crackling sense of humour
Newsweek
Nourishes the brain while it beguiles the senses
Time
One of the most remarkable achievements of contemporary fiction
Sunday Times
Deliciously readable
New York Times