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World of Wonders - Deptford Trilogy - Book 3 written by Robertson Davies performed by Marc Vietor on Audio CD (Unabridged)

World of Wonders - Deptford Trilogy - Book 3 written by Robertson Davies performed by Marc Vietor on Audio CD (Unabridged)£59.99

Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as a "modern classic", Robertson Davies' acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. World of Wonders, the third book in the series after The Manticore, follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim - the most illustrious magician of his age - who is spirited away from his home by a member of...

The Lyre of Orpheus - The Cornish Trilogy Book 3 written by Robertson Davies performed by Frederick Davidson on Audio CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781441709813
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Modern
Duration:  900 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Robertson Davies
Performer 1:  Frederick Davidson
Rarity:  Rare

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The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when he and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of the late art expert, collector, and notable eccentric Francis Cornish, whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. It is decided that the Foundation...

will fund the doctoral work of one Hulda Schnakenburg, a grumpy, remarkably unattractive, and extraordinarily talented music student. Her task is to complete the score of an unfinished opera by the Romantic composer E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Additionally, and against all common sense, the Foundation will endeavor to stage the opera, entitled Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold. The scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto.

As the production takes shape, complications both practical and emotional arise: the gypsy in Maria's blood rises with a vengeance; Darcourt stoops to petty crime; and various others indulge in perjury, blackmail, and other unsavory pursuits. Hoffman's dictum, The lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld, proves all too true-especially when the long-hidden secrets of Francis Cornish himself are finally revealed.

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