The Cornish Trilogy: The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, The Lyre of Orpheus
- ISBN-10
- 0771027818
- ISBN-13
- 9780771027819
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 1168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-05-24
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Author
- Robertson Davies
Description
Bringing together The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone, and The Lyre of Orpheus, The Cornish Trilogy is available as an eBook for the first time. 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 you into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy that could only be the invention of the inimitable Robertson Davies. “A biting satire on the artistic muse . . . . This wonderful, witty novel should speak to a worldwide audience.”—Chicago Tribune
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