The Lyre of Orpheus

The Lyre of Orpheus
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Автор: Davies Robertson
Серия: The Cornish Trilogy #3
Язык: английский
Год: 1990
Оригинальное название: The Lyre of Orpheus
Страниц: 105
Издатель: Penguin
ISBN: 0140114335
Город: New York
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Аннотация

The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to underetake a project worthy of Francis Cornish, whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The remarkably unattractive, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete E.T.A. Hoffmann’s unfinished opera Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cockold; and the scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto.

Complications both practical and emotional arise: the gypsy in Maria’s blood rises with a vengence; 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 all too true—especially when the long-hidden secrets of Francis Cornish himself are finally revealed.

The Lyre of Orpheus is the third novel in the Cornish Trilogy.

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