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The Cornish Trilogy - Robertson Davies


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The Cornish Trilogy - Robertson Davies

 
Description: ISBN 0140144463 / Author: Robertson Davies / Genre: Fiction / Published by Penguin Books

Newest Review: ... I later discovered that Robertson Davies was a very highly regarded Canadian author. The story is set in a university in the ... more

 ... Gothic college of St John and the Holy Ghost aka Spook. The college is in Canada but could equally be Oxbridge or any similar university college and will be familiar to any reader who has studied in such an establishment. The academy it seems is the academy regardless of its location. The story opens with Maria Magdalene Theotoky trying to overcome the embarrassment of facing her Professor, Clement Hollier, who had at their previous meeting "had me amid a great deal of confusion of clothing, creaking of spring...more

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Premium Review The Cornish Trilogy - Robertson Davies: Scatalogical Wit (not Alkaliguru's) (707 words)
by - written on 15/01/04 (Very useful, 320 readings)
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It was the title and lurid cover of The Rebel Angels that first drew my attention. I'm afraid I had not heard of the author Robertson Davies. The back of the book announced it was "A glittering extravaganza of wit, scatology, saturnalia, mysticism and erudite vaudeville." Although, at the time, I didn't actually know what scatology was I was familiar with the other terms and suspected that it might be my kind of book. And it was. Scatology The study of fecal excrement, as in medicine, paleontology, or biology. An obsession with excrement or excretory functions. The psychiatric study of such an obsession. Obscene language or ...  Read the complete review

bishops
Premium Review Page-turner AND intellectually worthwhile.... (190 words)
by - written on 05/09/00 (Useful, 52 readings)
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Feel guilty when you want something "easy" to read ? Need something that isn't Jackie Collins at one end or Dosteyevsky at the other ? Give this a try. I particularly suggested this for the dooyoo site because I noticed there seemed to be a few John Irving fans around. Whilst the similarities between JI and Robertson Davies aren't immediately obvious, devotees of Garp, Owen Meany et al will find this very familiar territory. Robertson Davies writes wonderful novels of academia, the arts, history ancient and modern, magic, the "unseen world" and some beautifully drawn, all-too-human characters. Yet he does all this within superbly ...  Read the complete review

 

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