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A diverse and surprising collection of crime fiction stories with elements of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Writers include: Spider Robinson,, Terence Green, Tanya Huff, Andrew Weiner, and more. ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Quotable Robertson Davies, Discoveries, for Your Eye Alone, Happy Alchemy, the Merry Heart, a Voice From the Attic, the Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies, the Well-Tempered Critic. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master, published in 2005, is a collection of quotations taken from the work of Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies; the collection was selected and edited by James Channing Shaw. The Quotable Robertson Davies presents approximately 800 quotations selected from Davies' written works. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2768213 ... Read more

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Ten years after the Master’s death, we proudly publish this hypnotic little book for those who love witty quotations — especially if they come from Robertson Davies.

James Channing Shaw’s brief Preface explains this delightful book:

“From the time of discovery of Robertson Davies’s writing, some of my greatest pleasures in reading Davies’s work have come from his quotable aphorisms, opinions, and general advice for living. The quotations, usually no more than one sentence in length, address women, art, literature, life itself. Some quotation-worthy phrases are mere descriptions beautifully composed, or opinions about Canadian life, or a humorously irreverent insult. In Davies’s novels and plays there is an abundance of these passages, with many more in his critical writing and in the Samuel Marchbanks books.

“This collection of approximately eight hundred quotations was selected from Davies’s written works. Those expressed in the spoken words of Davies’s characters are labelled with the character’s name in parentheses. Some are identified as the thoughts of the narrator. The quotations from Samuel Marchbanks, the fictional alter ego of Robertson Davies, are labelled by book title. All are quintessential Robertson Davies. Enjoy!”

A very short selection from this book, where every page will lure the reader in:

“Biography at its best is a form of fiction.”

“Too many doctors are deeply interested in disease, but don’t care much for people.”

“There is more to marriage than four bare legs in a blanket.”

“Never harbour grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.” ... Read more

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great collection of quotes
This is a terrific compendium of Davies' quotes, observations, wit and wisdom compiled in a readable and enjoyable book. I highly recommend it! ... Read more

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Chapters: High Spirits, Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack, the Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, the Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks, the Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: High Spirits is a collection of short stories by Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor Robertson Davies. It was first published by Penguin Canada in 1982 Robertson Davies was Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario from 1963 until 1981. Shortly after founding the College, he decided that he would tell a ghost story at the College's annual Christmas party its Gaudy Night as an entertainment. The telling of a ghost story became a tradition, and for eighteen years Davies wrote a new story, which he read out at the Gaudy Night celebration. After Davies' retirement from Massey College, the eighteen stories were collected and published in the book High Spirits. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1106005 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gabriel García Márquez, Robertson Davies, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Isaac Bashevis Singer, José Saramago, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Magic Realism, Isabel Allende, Joanne Harris, Janet Frame, Gustav Meyrink, Haruki Murakami, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Mário de Andrade, Kenzaburō Ōe, Günter Grass, Jonathan Safran Foer, Alejo Carpentier, Yasunari Kawabata, Daniil Kharms, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Kōbō Abe, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Mark Helprin, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Louis de Bernières, Shūji Terayama, Jeanette Winterson, Patrick Süskind, Amanda Filipacchi, Laura Esquivel, Victor Pelevin, Kelly Link, Nancy Springer, Onat Kutlar, Ben Okri, Daniel Kehlmann, Franz Roh, Sara Gallardo, Robert Poulet, Carlos Thorne Boas, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Kenji Nakagami, José Donoso, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Hubert Lampo, Keith Donohue, Han Shaogong, Michal Ajvaz, Rae Bryant, Ikezawa Natsuki, Francisco Méndez, R. M. Koster, Eden Robinson, David J. Schwartz. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Gabriel José de la Concordia "Gabo" García Márquez (Spanish pronunciation: ; born March 6, 1927) is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as Gabo throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short st...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12445 ... Read more

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Chapters: Magic Realism Novels, Magic Realism Writers, Gabriel García Márquez, Robertson Davies, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, the Green Mile, Isaac Bashevis Singer, José Saramago, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Chocolat, Isabel Allende, Joanne Harris, Midnight's Children, Janet Frame, Gustav Meyrink, Haruki Murakami, Miguel Ángel Asturias, the Master and Margarita, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Mário de Andrade, the House of the Spirits, Kenzaburō Ōe, Günter Grass, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dreaming in Cuban, Alejo Carpentier, the Satanic Verses, Yasunari Kawabata, Daniil Kharms, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Love in the Time of Cholera, Perfume, the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Winter's Tale, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, the Tin Drum, Kōbō Abe, in the Skin of a Lion, the Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Like Water for Chocolate, Little, Big, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Mark Helprin, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Louis de Bernières, Shūji Terayama, the War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Jeanette Winterson, Patrick Süskind, Amanda Filipacchi, Laura Esquivel, Pedro Páramo, Victor Pelevin, the Shadow of the Wind, Kelly Link, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the Obscene Bird of Night, Nancy Springer, Onat Kutlar, Ben Okri, Daniel Kehlmann, Everything Is Illuminated, the Island of Eternal Love, Franz Roh, Sara Gallardo, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, de Komst Van Joachim Stiller, Robert Poulet, the Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, the Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Carlos Thorne Boas, Shoeless Joe, the Famished Road, the Green Knight, Tahar Ben Jelloun, the Death of Artemio Cruz, Kenji Nakagami, the Sand Child, José Donoso, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Hubert Lampo, the Old Gringo, Explosion in a Cathedral, Keith Donohue, Han Shaogong, Illywhacker, Nude Men, Michal Ajvaz, the Game of Contemporaneity, the Carpathians, the Kingdom of ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12445 ... Read more

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Chapters: Robertson Davies, Oscar Peterson, Bruce Cockburn, Nelly Furtado, Barenaked Ladies, Adrienne Clarkson, Robert Goulet, David Foster, Blue Rodeo, the Tragically Hip, Bramwell Tovey, Leon Fleisher, Isabel Bayrakdarian, R. Murray Schafer, David Mirvish, Louise Pitre, Maureen Forrester, Tomson Highway, Steven Staryk, Mario Bernardi, Lois Marshall, Aline Chrétien, Jeanne Lamon, Richard Bradshaw, Richard Margison. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 183. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Adrienne Louise Clarkson (née Adrienne Louise Poy, 10 February 1939) is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 26th since that country's confederation. Clarkson is a refugee from Hong Kong, coming with her family to Canada in 1941 to settle and be raised in Ottawa, Ontario. After receiving a number of university degrees, Clarkson worked as a producer and broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as a journalist for various magazines. Her first diplomatic postings came in the early 1980s, when she promoted Ontario culture in France and other European countries. She was in 1999 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien, to replace Roméo LeBlanc as viceroy, and she occupied the post until succeeded by Michaëlle Jean in 2005. While Clarkson's appointment as the Canadian vicereine was generally welcomed at first, she caused some controversy during her time serving as the Queen's representative, mostly due to costs incurred in the operation of her office, as well as a somewhat anti-monarchist attitude towards the position. On 3 October 2005, Clarkson was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, giving her the accordant style of The Honourable; however, a...http://booksllc.net/?id=161185 ... Read more

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Chapters: John A. Macdonald, Robertson Davies, Wayne Gretzky, Robert Borden, John Abbott, Adrienne Clarkson, Jeffrey Simpson, Robert Baldwin, Raymond Massey, Roland Michener, David Miller, Bob Rae, Vincent Massey, Charles Stewart, Elizabeth May, Kim Campbell, Peter Lougheed, Billy Bishop, Emily Murphy, Hazel Mccallion, Hugh Mcfadyen, John Manley, Reg Alcock, Edmund Allen Meredith, C. D. Howe, George Grant, Bill Graham, George A. Drew, Mazo de La Roche, George Stanley, John Aimers, Robert Stanfield, Sam Steele, John Norquay, William Ralph Meredith, Autumn Phillips, John Fraser, Charles Herbert Mackintosh, Gordon Pinsent, William Heneker, Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, Bill Rompkey, Dufferin Roblin, Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury, John Godfrey, Edward Blake, Harry Crerar, Major James Coldwell, Edwin Leather, Robert Stanley Welch, Howard Ferguson, James Colledge Pope, Heward Grafftey, Michael Wilson, Nichola Goddard, Desmond Morton, Alexander Tilloch Galt, Brooke Claxton, Edward Samuel Rogers, David Anderson, Louis Henry Davies, David Collenette, Escott Reid, Erik Nielsen, Reuben Wells Leonard, John Bassett, F. R. Scott, William Hutt, John Farthing, Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, Percy W. Nelles, Brian Dickson, Anne Cools, John Hamm, Ruth Grier, John Breynton, Lynn Mcdonald, John Butler, Charlotte Whitton, George Hees, Edward Oliver Wheeler, Charles Loewen, Lyman Duff, George Norton Cory, John Kirton, James Hyndman, John Neville, J. M. S. Careless, Healey Willan, Jim Dinning, Gary Carr, Roy Maclaren, John Gomery, Steve Ashton, Colin Mcdougall, Alastair Sweeny, Herbert Alexander Bruce, John Black Aird, William Whiteway, Tom Siddon, John Willoughby Crawford, James Thomas Milton Anderson, Thain Wendell Macdowell, Bev Harrison, John Munro, John Douglas Hazen, Frank Arthur Calder, Mayann Francis, Harry Marshall Erskine Evans, Edward Amy, Arthur Sturgis Hardy, Joe Greene, George Anthony Walkem, H...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9526182 ... Read more

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Chapters: Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Michael Ondaatje, Gabrielle Roy, Timothy Findley, Rohinton Mistry, Carol Shields, Nancy Huston, Malcolm Lowry, Jane Urquhart, David Adams Richards, Morley Callaghan, Jack Hodgins, George Bowering, Alice Munro, Paul Quarrington, Hugh Maclennan, Igor Gouzenko, Margaret Laurence, Brian Moore, Josef Škvorecký, Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction, Thomas Head Raddall, Jacques Godbout, Suzanne Jacob, Governor General's Award for French Language Fiction, Marie-Claire Blais, Colin Mcdougall, Douglas Lepan, Matt Cohen, Miriam Toews, Rudy Wiebe, Anne Hébert, Bertram Brooker, Hugh Garner, Jacques Poulin, Antonine Maillet, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Douglas Glover, Jacques Brault, Gérard Bessette, Kate Pullinger, Lise Tremblay, Adele Wiseman, Jacques Ferron, Réjean Ducharme, Claire Martin, Alan Sullivan, David Gilmour, Marian Engel, Leon Rooke, John F. Hayes, Gilles Archambault, Diane Schoemperlen, Jean-Marc Dalpé, Gloria Sawai, Robert Kroetsch, Philip Child, Gwethalyn Graham, Yves Thériault, Nino Ricci, Richard B. Wright, André Giroux, Peter Behrens, Kildare Dobbs, Philippe Panneton, Dave Godfrey, Colin Mcadam, M. T. Kelly, Laura Salverson, Aki Shimazaki, Greg Hollingshead, Pascale Quiviger, Élise Turcotte. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 286. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian author, poet, critic, essayist, feminist and social campaigner. While she may be best known for her work as a novelist, she is also an award winning poet, having published 15 books of poetry to date. Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which were interests of hers from an early age. Atwood has also published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alp...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=60280 ... Read more