- Fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Guilt, Christian hagiography
"Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross, and destined to be caught in a no-man's-land where memory, history, and myth collide.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Robertson Davies
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Chr. Erichsen, Mazarine
- Editions
- 51
- Language
- dan, French, glg, English
- ISBN
- 9789146145905
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“MY LIFELONG INVOLVEMENT with Mrs. Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.”
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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