{"product_id":"the-papers-of-samuel-marchbanks-9780795352607","title":"The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Davies introduces us to his alter ego . . . A humorous and insightful picture of postwar Canadian life as seen through the eyes of a delightful eccentric.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As editor and later publisher of the \u003ci\u003ePeterborough Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e, Robertson Davies published witty, curmudgeonly, mischievous, and fiercely individualistic columns under the name of his alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks. In 1985, Davies edited and selected from his alter ego's observations to bring together previous titles in the Marchbanks bibliography: \u003ci\u003eThe Diary\u003c\/i\u003e (1947), \u003ci\u003eThe Table Talk\u003c\/i\u003e (1949), and \u003ci\u003eSamuel Marchbanks' Almanack\u003c\/i\u003e (1967). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Marchbanks opines on politics, on his furnace, on theatre, on the taxman, on trains, on Christmas, on book-banners, on manners, indeed on everything under the sun. Not only this, but Davies's copious and quite delectable Notes are \"calculated to remove all Difficulties caused by the passage of Time and to offer the Wisdom, not to speak of Whimsicality, of this astonishing man to the Modern Public, in the most convenient form.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This writing of four decades ago is consistently incisive, insulting, funny, relevant and altogether interesting.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Now this crank of the first order is on full display for the first time in America . . . To explain to his younger American readers such arcana as 'telegrams' and 'coal-burning furnaces, ' Davies has added graceful and comic notes that rival the entertaining opinions of Marchbanks himself.\"--\u003ci\u003eSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e RosettaBooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780795352607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.28d","brand":"Robertson Davies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41839008546997,"sku":"9780795352607","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0f7e0432-0495-40b3-a68f-4527e432f0d4.jpg?v=1646729539","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-papers-of-samuel-marchbanks-9780795352607","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}