For Your Eye Alone
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For Your Eye Alone, published by McClelland and Stewart
in 2000
, is a collection of letters written by Canadian
novelist Robertson Davies
.
Editor Judith Skelton Grant provides a selection of letters written by Davies from the period starting in 1976
until 1995
, the year of Davies' death. The letters touch on various subjects in Davies' life, including (but not limited to) the publication of The Cornish Trilogy
(1981
– 1988
), Murther and Walking Spirits
(1991
), The Cunning Man
(1994
), and Davies' next novel, which was never completed.
For Your Eye Alone is the first collection of Davies' letters; Discoveries
was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2002
.
McClelland and Stewart
McClelland & Stewart Limited is a Canadian publishing company. It is partially owned by Random House of Canada, now a subsidiary of Bertelsmann....
in 2000
2000 in literature
The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published...
, is a collection of letters written by Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
novelist Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSL 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 is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself...
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Editor Judith Skelton Grant provides a selection of letters written by Davies from the period starting in 1976
1976 in literature
The year 1976 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Saul Bellow won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-New books:*Kingsley Amis – The Alteration...
until 1995
1995 in literature
The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter....
, the year of Davies' death. The letters touch on various subjects in Davies' life, including (but not limited to) the publication of The Cornish Trilogy
The Cornish Trilogy
The Cornish Trilogy is three related novels by Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies.The trilogy consists of The Rebel Angels , What's Bred in the Bone , and The Lyre of Orpheus . The series explores the life and influence of Francis Cornish...
(1981
1981 in literature
The year 1981 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction given for the first time...
– 1988
1988 in literature
The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye*J.G. Ballard - Memories of the Space Age*Iain M...
), Murther and Walking Spirits
Murther and Walking Spirits
Murther and Walking Spirits, first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1991, is a novel by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies.Murther and Walking Spirits is, in a way, another ghost story, a genre Davies visited in his short story collection High Spirits . In the very first sentence of the...
(1991
1991 in literature
The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation....
), The Cunning Man
The Cunning Man
The Cunning Man, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1994, is the last novel written by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies.The Cunning Man is the memoir of the life of a doctor, Dr. Jonathan Hullah, living in Toronto. Hullah is a holistic physician — a cunning diagnostician who can often...
(1994
1994 in literature
The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Kevin J. Anderson - Champions of the Force, Dark Apprentice and Jedi Search*Reed Arvin - The Wind in the Wheat*Greg Bear - Songs of Earth and Power...
), and Davies' next novel, which was never completed.
For Your Eye Alone is the first collection of Davies' letters; Discoveries
Discoveries (Robertson Davies)
Discoveries, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2002, is a collection of letters written by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies.In Discoveries, editor Judith Skelton Grant provides a selection of letters written by Davies from the period starting in 1938 until 1975...
was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2002
2002 in literature
The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic...
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