The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies
The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies
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The Rebel Angels
The Cornish Trilogy, Book 1

Author: Robertson Davies

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 11 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/24/2009

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

A goodhearted priest and scholar, a professor with a passion for the darker side of medieval psychology, a defrocked monk, and a rich young businessman who inherits some troublesome paintings are all helplessly beguiled by the same coed. Davies weaves together the destinies of this remarkable cast of characters, creating a wise and witty portrait of love, murder, and scholarship at a modern university.

About Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) was an internationally acclaimed author, actor, publisher, and, finally, professor at the University of Toronto. The author of twelve novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terry

4 - 4.5 stars Some books are comfort reads. They are old friends whose familiarity provides us with a sense of stability and well-being, and they fit like a glove to the intellectual, emotional, and purely personal elements of our psyche. Sometimes this is because we came to them in formative years w......more

Τι κάνει ένα βιβλίο να υπερέχει ανάμεσα στα καλά, κακά, άνοστα, υποσχόμενα και ό,τι άλλο απαρτίζει τον ετερόκλητο πλήθος βιβλίων στο μυαλό ενός αναγνώστη; Γιατί δεν μπορούμε να διαβάζουμε πιο συχνά τόσο καλά βιβλία; Τελός πάντων, γιατί δεν διάβασα πιο νωρίς στην αναγνωστική μου καριέρα τούτο τον θησ......more

Goodreads review by mark

oh to live the life of the Ivory Tower, Tower of Babel, such freedoms such explorations such openings of the mind and spirit and body. all of the body's openings, always opening, dilating, expostulations outward and penetrations inward are par for the course. a course on microscopy, the lens foc......more

«Έκπτωτοι άγγελοι» ( βιβλίο Νο1 απο την τριλογία του Κόρνις). «Ο πολιτισμός βασίζεται σε δύο πράγματα: την ανακάλυψη ότι η ζύμωση παράγει αλκοόλ και την εθελοντική ικανότητα του ανθρώπου να αναστέλλει την αφόδευση». Το εκλεκτό μυθιστόρημα του Ντέιβις είναι μια άκαμπτη επίδειξη γνώσεων, φιλοσοφίας, σ......more