#1-3 The Cornish Trilogy

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

Robertson Davies
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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 the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy that could only be the invention of Canada's grand man of letters.
Genres: FictionFantasyCanadaLiteratureClassicsMagical RealismLiterary FictionArtContemporary20th Century
1152 Pages

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