The Lyre of Orpheus by Davies Robertson

The Lyre of Orpheus by Davies Robertson

This is the final volume in "The Cornish Trilogy" which began with "The Rebel Angels" and continued with "What's Bred in the Bone"(shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize). It describes the production of an opera and how the participants find its story uncannily mirrored in their own lives.

Robertson Davies (1913 1995) was born and raised in Ontario, and was educated at a variety of schools, including Upper Canada College, Queen s University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He had three successive careers: as an actor with the Old Vic Company in England; as publisher of the Peterborough Examiner; and as university professor and first Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, from which he retired in 1981 with the title of Master Emeritus.

He was one of Canada s most distinguished men of letters, with several volumes of plays and collections of essays, speeches, and belles lettres to his credit. As a novelist, he gained worldwide fame for his three trilogies: The Salterton Trilogy, The Deptford Trilogy, and The Cornish Trilogy, and for later novels Murther & Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man.

His career was marked by many honours: He was the first Canadian to be made an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was a Companion of the Order of Canada, and he received honorary degrees from twenty-six American, Canadian, and British universities.

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Titel	The Lyre of Orpheus
Autor	Davies Robertson
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1988-09-29
Seitenanzahl	480
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