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

Davies, Robertson;Penguin USA Viking Pr

ISBN 10: 0670873667 / ISBN 13: 9780670873661

Published by Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1997

About this Item

New York: Viking, 1997. Stated first edition. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 385 pp. Appears unread. Fine in fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # 016108

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books
• Publisher: Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670873667
• ISBN 13: 9780670873661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies and Memoirs
  • Books About Books

About this title

Synopsis

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 own files of unpublished material, these twenty-four essays and lectures range over themes from "The Novelist and Magic" to "Literature and Technology," from "Painting, Fiction, and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

About the Author

Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had three successive careers during the time he became an internationally acclaimed author: actor, publisher, and, finally, professor at the University of Toronto. The author of twelve novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.