| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xii, 385 pages ; 24 cm |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
A collection of writings by Robertson Davies, including speeches, reminiscences, book reviews, parodies, and essays. |
| Contents |
A rake at reading -- A chapter of Autobiography -- Literature in a country without a mythology -- Painting, fiction and faking -- Can a doctor be a humanist? -- Reviewing Graham Greene -- The novelish and magic -- My early literary life -- Literature and technology -- A Canadian author -- Literature and moral purpose -- The McFiggin fragment -- Reading -- Writing -- Christmas Books -- World of wonders -- Convocation address -- The feeled eye -- A view in winter: creativity in old age -- Honoring Mavis Gallant -- An Unlikely masterpiece -- A Christmas Carol re-harmonized -- Fiction of the future -- A ghost story. |
| Subject |
Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Books and reading.
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Authorship.
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Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995. (OCoLC)fst00012049
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Authorship. (OCoLC)fst00822442
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Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Davies. (DE-603)087253771 (DE-588c)118913387
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995. Merry heart. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 1997 (OCoLC)644001567 |
| ISBN |
0670873667 (acid-free paper) |
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9780670873661 (acid-free paper) |
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