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The Merry Heart Reflections on Reading Writing, and the World of Books Paperback - 1998
by Robertson Davies
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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 from Davies? own files of unpublished material, these twenty-four essays and lectures range over themes from "The Novelist and Magic" to "Literature and Technology," from "Painting, Fiction, and Faking," to "Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?" and "Creativity in Old Age." For devotees of Davies and all lovers of literature and language, here is the "urbanity, wit, and high seriousness mixed by a master chef" (Cleveland Plain Dealer)?vintage delights from an exquisite literary menu. Davies himself says merely: "Lucky writers. . .like wine, die rich in fruitiness and delicious aftertaste, so that their works survive them."
- Viking will publish Robertson Davies? Happy Alchemy in July 1998
- Many fine works by Robertson Davies are available from Penguin including The Deptford Trilogy, The Cornish Trilogy, and The Salterton Trilogy
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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.'
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- Title The Merry Heart Reflections on Reading Writing, and the World of Books
- Author Robertson Davies
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- Pages 385
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin (Non-Classics), New York
- Date July 1, 1998
- ISBN 9780140275865
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