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The Cornish Trilogy: The Rebel Angels; What's Bred in the Bone; The Lyre of Orpheus

The Cornish Trilogy series

Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and erudite scholars of the University of St. John and the Holy Ghost, this dazzling trilogy of novels lures the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy that could only be the invention of Canada's grand man of letters.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 1152 pages

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