A Voice from the Attic
Essays on the Art of Reading
A collection of essays filled with pleasantly rambling opinions about everything from self-help books to erotica from the celebrated Canadian author (The Chronicle Journal). An urbane, robust, and wonderfully opinionated voice from Canada, sometimes called America's attic, speaks here of the delights of reading, and of what mass education has done to readers today, to taste, to books, to culture. With his usual wit and breadth of vision, Robertson Davies ranges through the world of letters-books renowned and obscure, old and recent; English, Irish, Canadian, and American writers both forgotten and fondly remembered. Sweet reason in the raim…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7953-5231-7
- EAN: 9780795352317
- Produktnummer: 34128330
- Verlag: RosettaBooks
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 283 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 390 KB
Über den Autor
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 and Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man.His career was marked by many honors: 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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