The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks
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The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks by Robertson Davies
Davies introduces us to his alter ego . . . A humorous and insightful picture of postwar Canadian life as seen through the eyes of a delightful eccentric.--Library Journal As editor and later publisher of the>Peterborough Examiner, Robertson Davies published witty, curmudgeonly, mischievous, and fiercely individualistic columns under the name of his alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks. In 1985, Davies edited and selected from his alter ego's observations to bring together previous titles in the Marchbanks bibliography: The Diary (1947), The Table Talk (1949), and>Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967). Marchbanks opines on politics, on his furnace, on theatre, on the taxman, on trains, on Christmas, on book-banners, on manners, indeed on everything under the sun. Not only this, but Davies's copious and quite delectable Notes are calculated to remove all Difficulties caused by the passage of Time and to offer the Wisdom, not to speak of Whimsicality, of this astonishing man to the Modern Public, in the most convenient form. This writing of four decades ago is consistently incisive, insulting, funny, relevant and altogether interesting.--The New York Times Now this crank of the first order is on full display for the first time in America . . . To explain to his younger American readers such arcana as 'telegrams' and 'coal-burning furnaces, ' Davies has added graceful and comic notes that rival the entertaining opinions of Marchbanks himself.--South Florida Sun-SentinelDavies introduces us to his alter ego . . . A humorous and insightful picture of postwar Canadian life as seen through the eyes of a delightful eccentric.--Library Journal
As editor and later publisher of the>Peterborough Examiner, Robertson Davies published witty, curmudgeonly, mischievous, and fiercely individualistic columns under the name of his alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks. In 1985, Davies edited and selected from his alter ego's observations to bring together previous titles in the Marchbanks bibliography: The Diary (1947), The Table Talk (1949), and>Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967). Marchbanks opines on politics, on his furnace, on theatre, on the taxman, on trains, on Christmas, on book-banners, on manners, indeed on everything under the sun. Not only this, but Davies's copious and quite delectable Notes are calculated to remove all Difficulties caused by the passage of Time and to offer the Wisdom, not to speak of Whimsicality, of this astonishing man to the Modern Public, in the most convenient form. This writing of four decades ago is consistently incisive, insulting, funny, relevant and altogether interesting.--The New York Times Now this crank of the first order is on full display for the first time in America . . . To explain to his younger American readers such arcana as 'telegrams' and 'coal-burning furnaces, ' Davies has added graceful and comic notes that rival the entertaining opinions of Marchbanks himself.--South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Davies, Robert: - Robert Davies is a born-and-raised Michigan kid with an overactive imagination and love of literature that eventually became a disease, curable only through the odd, frustrating therapy of writing fiction. A Navy veteran, musician, private pilot and erstwhile traveler, he crossed oceans and countless borders to find and understand Earth, only to leave it behind in the pages of his first novel. Released from the University of Portland with a Bachelor's in Journalism, Rob has spent the last twenty years as a contract manager in the information technology and telecommunications industries. He currently lives in southwest Washington with his wife Stephanie, daughter Natalie and two mildly overbearing female tabbies.
SKU | GOR006635776 |
ISBN 13 | 9780670811458 |
ISBN 10 | 0670811459 |
Title | The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks |
Author | Robertson Davies |
Condition | very good |
Binding type | Hardback |
Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
Year published | 1987-04-30 |
Number of pages | 560 |
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