The Cornish Trilogy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cornish Trilogy write by Robertson Davies. This book was released on 2016-05-24. The Cornish Trilogy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Cornish Trilogy
The Cornish Trilogy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cornish Trilogy write by Robertson Davies. This book was released on 1991. The Cornish Trilogy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of Canadian author Robertson Davies’ most dazzling achievements, ‘The Cornish Trilogy’ explores the life and influence of eccentric art patron Francis Cornish and comprises ‘The Rebel Angels’, ‘What’s Bred in the Bone’ (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1986) and ‘The Lyre of Orpheus’.Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and erudite scholars of the University of St John and the Holy Ghost, the trilogy lures the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion and gothic fantasy. It is densely plotted, highly entertaining and fuses themes of religion, love, art and music in a glorious celebration of humanism.‘… the kind of writer who makes you want to nag your friends until they read him so that they share the pleasure’ Observer.
Robertson Davies's Cornish Trilogy
Robertson Davies's Cornish Trilogy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robertson Davies's Cornish Trilogy write by Victor J. Lams. This book was released on 2008. Robertson Davies's Cornish Trilogy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Robertson Davies's Cornish Trilogy: A Reader's Guide is the first book-length study of Davies's best work: The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, and The Lyre of Orpheus. In The Rebel Angels, Maria and Darcourt alternate in
The Lyre of Orpheus
The Lyre of Orpheus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lyre of Orpheus write by Robertson Davies. This book was released on 2015-08-25. The Lyre of Orpheus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Rebel Angels
The Rebel Angels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rebel Angels write by Robertson Davies. This book was released on 2015-08-25. The Rebel Angels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Available as an eBook for the first time, The Rebel Angels is the first book in the celebrated Cornish Trilogy. Gypsies, defrocked monks, mad professors, and wealthy eccentrics—a remarkable cast peoples Robertson Davies’ brilliant spectacle of theft, perjury, murder, scholarship, and love at a modern university. Only Davies, author of Fifth Business, could have woven together their destinies with such wit, humour, and wisdom.
