“This is, after all, a book about reading, and the kind of reader I am addressing does not care primarily about being in fashion.”

—  Robertson Davies , book A Voice from the Attic

A Voice from the Attic (1960)

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Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov… 1913–1995

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