Tempest-Tost
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140054316 (0140054316)
Publish date: June 26th 1980
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
Series: Salterton Trilogy (#1)
Darkly hilarious and full of many fine things, not the least of which is Robertson Davies' delightful lexicon. The reader will encounter aposiopesis and apotheosis, contumaciously and hoyden and costive and nugacities and pismire and emmet and orgulous and even borborygmi. Not to be read in public b...