High Spirits (short story collection)

Robertson Davies was Master of

After Davies' retirement from Massey College, the eighteen stories were collected and published in the book High Spirits.

Contents

• "How the High Spirits Came About, A Chapter of Autobiography"
• "Revelation from a Smoky Fire"
• "The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees"
• "The Great Queen is Amused"
• "The Night of the Three Kings"
• "The Charlottetown Banquet"
• "When Satan Comes Home for Christmas"
• "Refuge of Insulted Saints"
• "Dickens Digested"
• "The Kiss of Krushchev"
• "The Cat that Went to Trinity"
• "The Ugly Spectre of Sexism"
• "The Pit Whence Ye Are Digged"
• "The Perils of the Double Sign"
• "Conversations with the Little Table"
• "The King Enjoys His Own Again"
• "The Xerox in the Lost Room"
• "Einstein and the Little Lord"
• "Offer of Immortality"

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