The Cornish Trilogy: What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus

by RobertsonDavies (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $18.42

  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 find themselves drawn into Cornish's bizarre, secretive and mystical world. In this spellbinding trilogy a host of memorable characters - defrocked, mischief-making monks, half-mad professors, gypsies and musical geniuses - become entangled in a story that involves theft, perjury, scholarship, murder, love, and the squandering of plenty of cash.

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  Paperback
  1991

  $4.48

  One of Canadian author Robertson Davies' most dazzling achievements, The Cornish Trilogy explores the life and influence of eccentric art patron Francis Cornish and comprises The Rebel Angels , What's Bred in the Bone (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1986) and The Lyre of Orpheus . Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and erudite scholars of the University of St John and the Holy Ghost, the trilogy lures the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion and gothic fantasy. It is densely plotted, highly entertaining and fuses themes of religion, love, art and music in a glorious celebration of humanism. '...the kind of writer who makes you want to nag your friends until they read him so that they share the pleasure' - Observer .