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Robertson Davies, a renowned Canadian novelist, is celebrated internationally. This work depicts his story about a Canadian university professor and features lively portrayals of the characters.

Qui se cache derrière la fondation Cornish ? Une secte d'adorateurs du Graal ? Ou, tout simplement, un groupe de mécènes fidèles à l'esprit de leur bienfaiteur ? Mystères. Une chose est sûre : lorsqu'ils décident de monter un opéra d'Hoffmann, dont le livret inachevé vient d'être retrouvé, ils ignorent que cette initiative va provoquer une réaction en chaîne incontrôlable. Ainsi s'achève la " trilogie de Cornish ", fresque littéraire dont chaque volet est indépendant des autres, mais dont l'ensemble forme une saga unique en son genre.

Der Arzt Jonathan Hullah frönt unkonventionellen Heilmethoden. Das erregt die Neugier seiner Umgebung, die seine Vergangenheit zu enthüllen sucht: Jonathan, der als junger Mann nach Toronto kommt, um Medizin zu studieren, lernt er bei einer Schauspieltruppe Nuala kennen, in die er sich verliebt. Aber während er als Arzt am Zweiten Weltkrieg teilnehmen muß, heiratet sie seinen besten Freund.

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.

Murdered by his wife's lover, Gil must spend his afterlife seated next to his murderer at a film festival, where he views the exploits of his ancestors from the Revolutionary era to his parents' time

Fifth Business: "Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him"--Publisher website (May 2007)

There is an important decisionto be made. The Cornish Foundation, set up with money left by the late Francis Cornish, connoisseur, collector, and notable eccentric, must decide upon wat worthy undertaking next to dispense a portion of its considerable funds.

In the small university town of Salterton, Ontario, dreams are quietly taking shape, or falling apart. There's the Salterton Little Theatre Company, in which professional director Valentine Rich is tormented by the amateurish efforts of his actors. The families Vambrace and Bridgetower almost go to war over a fake notice of engagement in the local paper. And a family fortune is lavished on an aspiring singer because there is no male heir to claim it. Tracing the lives and incidents of a small community in the middle of the last century, "The Salterton Trilogy" peels off the public veneer of geniality and respectability to reveal the private passions churning beneath.

In diesem Roman von Robertson Davies verschmelzen Illusion und Wirklichkeit sowie Sehnsucht und brutaler Alltag zu einem phantastisch schillernden Stoff, der die Träume verkörpert.