The lyre of Orpheus
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New York : Viking, 1989., New York : Viking, 1989.
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472 pages
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Longmont Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIES, R.
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There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish-connoisseur, collector, and notable eccentric-whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The grumpy, grimy, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete E.T.A. Hoffmann's unfinished opera Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold; and the scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto. Complications both practical and emotional arise: the passion in Maria's blood rises with a vengeance; Darcourt stoops to petty crime; and various others indulge in perjury, blackmail, and other unsavory pursuits. Hoffmann's dictum, "the lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld," seems to be all too true-especially when the long-hidden secrets of Francis Cornish himself are finally revealed.
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English
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067082416X
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Davies, R. (1989). The lyre of Orpheus. New York, Viking.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995. 1989. The Lyre of Orpheus. New York, Viking.

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Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995, The Lyre of Orpheus. New York, Viking, 1989.

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Davies, Robertson. The Lyre of Orpheus. New York, Viking, 1989.

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