The Rebel Angels
- ISBN-10
- 0140264310
- ISBN-13
- 9780140264319
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 337
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Author
- Robertson Davies
Description
, defrocked monks, mad professors, and wealthy eccentrics-a remarkable cast peoples Robertson Davies' brilliant spectacle of theft, perjury, murder, scholarship, and love at a modern university. Only Mr. Davies, author of Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, could have woven together their destinies with such wit, humour-and wisdom.
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