Author: Davies, Robertson

Hailed as a literary masterpiece, Robertson Davies' The Cornish Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in the bestselling Lyre of Orpheus. 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 op...
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The Manticore (Penguin Classics)

By: Davies, Robertson

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : February 2006

Seller ID: 8223

ISBN-13: 9780143039136

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The second book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as a modern classic, Robertson Davies's acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. The Manticore--the second book in the series after Fifth Business--follows David Staunton, a man pleased with his success but haunted by his relationship with his larger-than-life father. As he seeks help through therapy, he encounters a wonderful cast of characters who help co...
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What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy)

By: Davies, Robertson

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Viking : November 1985

Seller ID: 183007

ISBN-13: 9780670809165

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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, an expert 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. In this second book of the Cornish Trilogy, Davies spins a tale told in stylish, elegant prose, endowed with lavis...
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Author: Davies, Robertson

A Voice from the Attic: Essays on the Art of Reading

High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories

The Lyre of Orpheus

The Manticore (Penguin Classics)

What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy)