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Readers around the world continue to mourn the 1995 death of a beloved literary icon, but this rich and varied collection of Robertson Davies's writings on the world of books and the miracle of language captures his inimitable voice and sustains his presence among us. Coming almost entirely... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Robertson Davies: Add a description of this character.
- Greene
- Dr. Scrooge
- Dickens
- Dunstan Ramsay
- Bronzino
- Leacock
- Dr. Croucher
- Mavis Gallant
- Mr. Pickwick
- Henry James
- Anna
- Liesl
- Master
- Mr. Sandwell
- Bernard Shaw
- James Joyce
- Grout
- Dostoyevski
- Tom Keating
- Boy Staunton
- Dr. Katt
- Don Quixote
- Thomas Mann
- Hugo
- Aldous Huxley
- Matthew Arnold
- Browning
- Paul Dempster
- Jean
- Samuel Marchbanks
- Evelyn Waugh
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Henrik Ibsen
- Jane Austen
- Miss Sutton
- Freud
- Walter Scott
- Thomas Hardy
- Einstein
- Joe
First Sentence edit
ROBERTSON DAVIES' INTERESTING account of a lifetime's encounter with books - ranging in sophistication from The Little Red Hen to Ulysses - encompasses his philosophy of reading before moving on to the provocative assertion that "we who are committed readers may appear to choose our books, but in an equally true sense our books choose us.'
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robertson Davies (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 814.54
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Canadian › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Canadian › Collections & Readers
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( D ) › Davies, Robertson
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Essays
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Books & Reading
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