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A close up of the Episkopon Tower, Trinity College, the University of Toronto (Guy Grant Taylor, 2015) The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies in The Cornish Trilogy, Penguin Books, 2011 (1981). ̵…| Calmgrove
What’s Bred in the Bone (1985) by Robertson Davies, No 2 in The Cornish Trilogy. Penguin Books, 2011 (1991). ‘That alchemy is a pretty kind of game Somewhat like tricks o’ the cards to cheat a man With charming.’ — ‘The Alchemist’ (1610) by Ben Johnson. This, the absorbing central title in Robertson Davies’s Cornish … Continue reading The Alchemical Master| Calmgrove
A close up of the Episkopon Tower, Trinity College, the University of Toronto (Guy Grant Taylor, 2015) The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies in The Cornish Trilogy, Penguin Books, 2011 (1981). ̵…| Calmgrove
The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies (1988). No 3 in The Cornish Trilogy, Penguin, 2011 (1991). “The lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld of feeling.” — E T A Hoffman. The third volume of Robertson Davies’s Cornish Trilogy follows The Rebel Angels and What’s Bred in the Bone in being mostly … Continue reading Snark or Boojum? #ReadingRobertsonDavies| Calmgrove Books
