The Rebel Angels

12 hrs. 28 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Robertson Davies

Narrator Sergey Kirsanov

Robertson Davies is Canada’s leading writer, a master of intricate plots and riddles, one of the best storytellers in English-language literature. He made it to the Booker shortlist and, late in life, was almost awarded the Nobel Prize — but even after remaining forever among the nominees, he earned the status of a world classic. The inheritance of the wealthy patron and collector Francis Cornish attracts characters of the widest variety, if not outright irreconcilable: Simone Darkur — a kind priest and scholar; Clement Hollier — a professor, an expert on the dark aspects of medieval psychology; Parlabain — a monk-turned-religious and scandal-maker; Arthur Cornish — a young businessman appointed executor of the will; and also Maria Magdalene Feotoka — a beautiful aspiring student with an uncanny kind of power over them. Has she perhaps cast a spell over them with her charms? People say, after all, that all gypsies are witches…

1. The Rebel Angels 2. What's Bred in the Bone (narrated by Mikhail Roslyakov) 3. Lyre of Orpheus (narrated by Sergey Kirsanov)