The Cornish Trilogy: The Rebel Angels; What's Bred in the Bone; The Lyre of Orpheus - Couverture souple

Davies, Robertson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140158502 ISBN 13 : 9780140158502

Editeur : Penguin Books, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Davies Robertson

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) was born and raised in Ontario, and was educated at a variety of schools, including Upper Canada College, Queen’s University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He had three successive careers: as an actor with the Old Vic Company in England; as publisher of the Peterborough Examiner; and as university professor and first Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, from which he retired in 1981 with the title of Master Emeritus.

He was one of Canada’s most distinguished men of letters, with several volumes of plays and collections of essays, speeches, and belles lettres to his credit. As a novelist, he gained worldwide fame for his three trilogies: The Salterton Trilogy, The Deptford Trilogy, and The Cornish Trilogy, and for later novels Murther & Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man.

His career was marked by many honours: He was the first Canadian to be made an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was a Companion of the Order of Canada, and he received honorary degrees from twenty-six American, Canadian, and British universities.

Revue de presse :

Deliciously readable (New York Times)

One of the most remarkable achievements of contemporary fiction (Sunday Times)

Nourishes the brain while it beguiles the senses (Time)

A first-rate storyteller and a real moralist with a crackling sense of humour (Newsweek)

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)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140158502
• ISBN 13: 9780140158502
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 1152