Table of Contents

A rake at reading; a chapter of autobiography; literature in a country without mythology; painting, fiction, and faking; can a doctor be a humanist?; reviewing Graham Greene; the novelist and magic; my early literary life; literature and technology; a Canadian author; literature and moral purpose; the McFiggen fragment; reading; writing; Christmas books; world of wonders; convocation address; the peeled eye; a view in winter - creativty in old age; honouring Mavis Gallant; an unlikely masterpiece; a Christmas carol reharmonized; fiction of the future; a ghost story.

About the Author

Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had three successive careers during the time he became an internationally acclaimed author: actor, publisher, and, finally, professor at the University of Toronto. The author of twelve novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.