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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780140248302 ISBN: 0140248307 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: February 01, 1996 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Book Description: The story of Dr. Jonathan Hullah who has used his high degree of cunning to the end of concealing his own true nature. In this brilliant novel, Davies reveals him to us. "This is a wise, humane and consistently entertaining novel." --New York Times Book Review "The Cunning Man is one of [Robertson Davis's] most entertaining and satisfying books..." --The Washington Post Book World Average Rating:
 Rating: - Interesting I read this book because it's on the modern library's top 100 books, and it was interesting. The thing I liked the best is how the author alludes to a lot of other well known poems and sometimes directly quotes things. It shows how well read and clever the author was when writing this novel. The overall story is good, not outstanding because it's a little dull and boring at times, but it definitely has it's good moments as well. Overall, The Cunning Man is unique, and in my opinion worth reading. ... Read More Rating:  - Cunning endThough Robertson Davies was researching another book -- the end of the unfinished "Toronto Trilogy" -- his final novel "The Cunning Man" feels like the real end of his career. While it has some typical Daviesian content (mystery, evolving characters), the whole novel feels like an elderly man's farewell to his friends and the changing world. Father Ninian Hobbes, a sweet old High Anglican priest, dies during Good Friday mass. Dr. Jonathan Hullah is perplexed by the details, but not so ... Read More Rating: - decent bookthe main character was a little too in love with himself. maybe that was the point. about 80% of the way through, i got bored and put the book away. Rating:  - Great Cast of CharactersRobertson Davies' "The Cunning Man" purports to be the Diary or Case Book of a doctor--Jonathan Hullah--who moves from the wilderness of Sioux Lookout to Toronto, Canada. But it is much more than that. It turns into what the narrator, Hullah, says he wants to avoid, a Bildungsroman or Novel of Development: in this case the development of Hullah's character, but also the development of Toronto and Canada itself, from a wild-and-wooly backwoods place to an cosmopolitan, but very quirky, ... Read More Rating: - Read for what it says, not how it says itPity the Amazon star system doesn't allow for fractional stars, or else I would have given this 3.5 or 3.75. I first read The Cunning Man in my mid-20s, after reading - and greatly enjoying - both the Salterton and Cornish trilogies. It left me disappointed, but for some reason I couldn't get Charlie Iredale's fate out of head. I recently re-read the book in my late 30s, and I've adjusted my original judgement slightly. There's no doubt that the book's flawed, but it also manages to be ... Read More 
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