The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books - Softcover

Davies, Robertson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014027586X ISBN 13: 9780140275865

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

As close to an autobiography as we can ever expect, this is a collection of remiscences, speeches, book reviews, parodies and essays. Covering such diverse subjects as art fakery, Davies' own schooldays, the differences between Canadians and Americans, Thackeray, Ibsen, writing and reading - along with tantalizing fragments from Davies' own unpublished diary. 'Davies is extravagantly knowledgeable, continuously intelligent, and given to thinking matters through; whatever the subject, he hassomething to say about it' D. J Enright, Spectator.

About this title

About the Author:

Robertson Davies was born in 1913 in Thamesville, Ontario and died in 1995.

He is best known for his fiction: THE SALTERTON TRILOGY, THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY, THE CORNISH TRILOGY (which includes the Booker shortlised WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE), MURTHERAND WALKING SPIRITS and THE CUNNING MAN (0140243437)

Synopsis:

A collection of writings from Robertson Davies including: reminiscences, speeches, book reviews, parodies essays and fragments of his unpublished diary. Subjects covered by the essays include: art fakery, schooldays, the differences between Canadians and Americans, Thackery, Ibsen, writing and reading.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 014027586X
• ISBN 13: 9780140275865
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400