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The Lyre of Orpheus (Cornish Trilogy, Bk 3)
The Lyre of Orpheus - Cornish Trilogy, Bk 3 Author:Robertson Davies The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish, whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The remarkably unatttractive, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete... more » E. T. A. Hoffmann's unfinished opera Arthur of Britain or The Magnanimous Cuckold; and the scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto.
Complications both practical and emotional arise: Darcourt stoops to petty crime; and various others indulge in perjury, blackmail, and other unsavory pursuits. Hoffmann's dictum, "the lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld," seems to be all too true - especially when the long-hidden secrets of Francis Cornish himself are finally revealted.« less
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