- Fiction, Physicians, Holistic medicine, Intellectuals
Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon with "a high degree of cunning," is shocked when St. Aidan's Father Hobbes drops dead during church services. What made the good--and perfectly healthy--clergyman die so suddenly? To solve the mystery, Dr. Hullah whisks us on a fascinating tour of his own rich and highly observant life.
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Cool, classical in form, contemplative and spare.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Robertson Davies
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 469
- Publisher
- Destino, Penguin Books, Limited, Viking Penguin
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Spanish, fin, dan, English
- ISBN
- 9783810508577
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William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.
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