The Cornish Trilogy: The Rebels Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, The Lyre of Orpheus PDF
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The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies Product Details * Pub. Date: February 1992 * Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) * Format: Paperback * Series: Cornish Trilogy Series * ISBN-13: 9780140158502 * ISBN: 0140158502 * Pub. Date: January 1992 * Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated * Format: Hardcover * Series: Cornish Trilogy Series * ISBN-13: 9780670841868 * ISBN: 0670841862 Synopsis 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 the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy that could only be the invention of Canada's grand man of letters. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4 Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in Great Britain by Alien Lane 1982 Published in Penguin Books 1983 7 9 10 8 Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1981 All rights reserved Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser The Rebel Angels The Cornish Trilogy #1 by Robertson Davies Back Cover: The College of St. John and the Holy Ghost (Spook) is jolted out of its crabbed and scholarly pursuits by the return to its Gothic walls of the evil, brilliant Brother Parlabane and by the miraculous discovery of an unpublished manuscript by Rabelais. A glittering extravaganza of wit, scatology, saturnalia, mysticism and erudite vaudeville, The Rebel Angels places Robertson Davies in the forefront of contemporary writers. "The sort of novelist readers can hardly wait to tell their friends about. . . a reader just sighs with pleasure as he turns the pages." -- Washington Post Book World "Every novel from Robertson Davies is a cerebral adventure spliced with fantasy, sex and verbal gymnastics. He tantalizes you, but by God, it's more than your peace of mind is worth not to read it to the end. And what an end: you won't forget The Rebel Angels in a hurry!" -- Alan Sillitoe "His novels will be recognized with the very best works of this century" -- J. K. Galbraith in The New York Times Book Review The Rebel Angels is the first volume in Robertson Davies's The Cornish Trilogy and was followed by What's Bred in the Bone, which was short-listed for the 1986 Booker Prize, and The Lyre of Orpheus. Second Paradise I "Parlabane is back." "What?" "Hadn't you heard? Parlabane is back." "Oh my God!" I hurried on down the long corridor, through chattering students and gossiping faculty members, and again I overheard it, as another pair of professors met. "You haven't heard about Parlabane, I suppose?" "No. What should I have heard?" "He's back." "Not here?" "Yes. In the college." "Not staying, I hope?" "Who's to say? With Parlabane, anyhow." This was what I wanted. It was something to say to Hollier when we met after nearly four months apart. At that last meeting he had become my lover, or so I was vain enough to think. Certainly he had become, agonizingly, the man I loved. All through the summer vacation I had fretted and fussed and hoped for a postcard from wherever he might be in Europe, but he was not a man to write postcards. Not a man to say very much, either, in a personal way. But he could be excited; he could give way to feeling. On that day in early May, when he had told me about the latest development in his work, and I -- so eager to serve him, to gain his gratitude and perhaps even his love -- did an inexcusable thing and betrayed the secret of the bomari to him, he seemed
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