Murther And Walking Spirits

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN 13 : 9780140168846
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murther and Walking Spirits written by Robertson Davies and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murdered by his wife's lover, Gil must spend his afterlife seated next to his murderer at a film festival, where he views the exploits of his ancestors from the Revolutionary era to his parents' time

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771027842
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murther and Walking Spirits written by Robertson Davies and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murther & Walking Spirits is available as an eBook for the first time. “I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead.” So begins the unusual story of Connor “Gil” Gilmartin when he catches his wife in flagrante with the Sniffer, his former colleague and now his murderer. Though he is struck dead in the very first line of this novel, death is only the first indignity Gil is about to suffer. For he lingers on as a ghost, and from this bleak vantage–made even less endurable by the fact that he must spend the afterlife sitting beside his killer at a film festival–he is forced to view the exploits and failures of his ancestors, from the forerunners who sailed up the Hudson to Canada during the American Revolution right up to his university-professor parents.

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Penguin Books Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780140158113
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murther & Walking Spirits written by Robertson Davies and published by Penguin Books Canada. This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771027826
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Spirits written by Robertson Davies and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fruits of an eighteen-year tradition of Massey College’s annual Gaudy Nights, Robertson Davies’ High Spirits still delights and amuses to this day. Published as an eBook for the first time. In the Introduction to this collection of charming stories, Robertson Davies notes we all need “ghosts as a dietary supplement . . . to stave off that most dreadful of modern ailments, the Rational Rickets.” In one tale, Mr. Davies introduces the ghost of Henrik Ibsen; in another, he brings us face to face with a bust of Charles Dickens, whose “scarlet lips . . . parted in a terrible smile” and whose “beard stirred in a hiccup of repletion.” Sixteen other apparitions manifest themselves, each rendered with Robertson Davies’ special touch–a bit of parody, a touch of true scariness–and all emanating from high spirits.

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780795352584
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cunning Man written by Robertson Davies and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An amazing coup . . . a brilliant, never less than engaging work of fiction which is also a philosophical meditation on the business of living."-Financial Times When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high alter on Good Friday, Dr. Jonathan Hullah-whose holistic work has earned him the label "Cunning Man" (for the wizard of folk tradition)-wants to know why. The physician-cum-diagnostician's search for answers compels him to look back over his own long life. He conjures vivid memories of the dazzling, intellectual high-jinks and compassionate philosophies of himself and his circle, including flamboyant, mystical curate Charlie Iredale; cynical, quixotic professor Brocky Gilmartin; outrageous banker Darcy Dwyer; and jocular, muscular artist Pansy Todhunter. In compelling and hilarious scenes from the divine comedy of life, The Cunning Man reveals profound truths about being human. "Wise, humane and consistently entertaining . . . Robertson Davies's skill and curiosity are as agile as ever, and his store of incidental knowledge is a constant pleasure."-The New York Times Book Review "The sparkling history of [the] erudite and amusing Dr. Hullah, who knows the souls of his patients as well as he knows their bodies . . . never fails to enlighten and delight."-The London Free Press "Davies is a good companion. Settling into The Cunning Man is like taking a comfortable chair opposite a favorite uncle who has seen and done everything."-Maclean's "Irresistible, unflaggingly vital. A wholehearted and sharp-minded celebration of the Great Theatre of Life."-The Sunday Times "A novel brimming with themes of music, poetry, beauty, philosophy, death and the deep recesses of the mind."-The Observer

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771027893
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tempest-Tost written by Robertson Davies and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel that launched Robertson Davies’ literary career, Tempest-Tost is a magnificent display of his legendary wit. The first novel in The Salterton Trilogy is now available as an eBook for the first time. An amateur production of The Tempest provides a colourful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love. Mathematics teacher Hector Mackilwraith, stirred and troubled by Shakespeare’s plays, falls in love with the beautiful Griselda Webster. When Griselda shows she has plans of her own, Hector despairs and tries to commit suicide on the play’s opening night.

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781884964305
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Essay written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hefty one-volume reference addressing various facets of the essay. Entries are of five types: 1) considerations of different types of essay, e.g. moral, travel, autobiographical; 2) discussions of major national traditions; 3) biographical profiles of writers who have produced a significant body of work in the genre; 4) descriptions of periodicals important for their publication of essays; and 5) discussions of some especially significant single essays. Each entry includes citations for further reading and cross references. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Timothy Findley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Headhunter written by Timothy Findley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Characters and Passages from Note-books written by Samuel Butler and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771027907
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaven of Malice written by Robertson Davies and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Leaven of Malice is the second novel in Robertson Davies’ much-loved Salterton Trilogy. Available as an eBook for the first time. The following announcement appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman: “Professor and Mrs. Walter Vambrace are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Pearl Veronica, to Solomon Bridgetower, Esq., son of . . .” Although the malice that prompted this false engagement notice was aimed at three people only–Solly Bridgetower, Pearl Vambrace, and Gloster Ridley, the anxiety-ridden local newspaper editor–before the leaven of malice had ceased to work it had changed permanently, for good or ill, the lives of many citizens of Salterton. This is the second novel in The Salterton Trilogy (which also includes Tempest-Tost and A Mixture of Frailties).