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28 produkter
Deptford Trilogy
Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders
Häftad, 2011
239 kr
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At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay, intended victim of the snowball, who, fatefully, ducks; his 'lifelong friend and enemy' Percy Boyd Staunton, angered by …
Cunning Man
Häftad, 2011
215 kr
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When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr Jonathan Hullah - whose holistic ideas have earned him the soubriquet 'cunning man' - wants to know why. But it is only through looking back at his own long life that answers are forthcoming. He recalls the dazzling …
The Deptford Trilogy
E-bok, 2019
113 kr
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Robertson Devis — krupnejshij kanadskij pisatel'', master syuzhetnyh hitrospletenij i zagadok, odin iz luchshih rasskazchikov angloyazychnoj literatury. On popadal v short-list Bukera, pod konec zhizni chut'' bylo ne poluchil Nobelevskuyu premiyu, no, dazhe naveki ostavshis'' v chisle kandidatov, …
Cornish Trilogy
What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus
Häftad, 2011
239 kr
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The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. But in the realization of their duties, they …
Salterton Trilogy
Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, A Mixture of Frailties
Häftad, 2011
239 kr
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In the small university town of Salterton, Ontario, dreams are quietly taking shape, or falling apart. There's the Salterton Little Theatre Company, in which professional director Valentine Rich is tormented by the amateurish efforts of his actors. The families Vambrace and Bridgetower almost go to …
Fifth Business
E-bok, 2001
216 kr
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Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man''s land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from …
Manticore
E-bok, 2006
213 kr
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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 …
World of Wonders
E-bok, 2006
213 kr
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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. World of Wonders —the third book in the series after The Manticore —follows the …
Celtic Temperament
Robertson Davies as Diarist
Av Robertson Davies, Ramsay Derry m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
456 kr
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Versatile and prolific, Robertson Davies was an actor, journalist and newspaper publisher, playwright, essayist, founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and one of Canada’s greatest novelists. He was also an obsessive, complex, and self-revealing diarist. His diaries, which …
Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast
Häftad, 1993
287 kr
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Robertson Davies has been called the most important Canadian playwright of the postwar period. These two plays from the 1940s prove that great writing and important themes never go out of style.
Hunting Stuart and The Voice of the People
Häftad, 1994
246 kr
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Hunting Stuart, about an Ottawa civil servant’s royal connection, and The Voice of the People, a one-act play about a letter to the editor, are among Robertson Davies’ best plays.
