The rebel angels by Robertson Davies

Review from New Republic, 03/10/1982:
"One of those novels that impart a good deal of information--as well as entertainment-- to the reader....it is a work of impressive vigor and vivacity, which no addict of the campus novel will want to miss."
-- David Lodge

Review from Newsweek, 02/08/1982:
"Much of this dialectical novel is fascinating and witty, but some of it gets to be pretty heavy sledding."

Review from Quill and Quire, October 1981:
"A novel of trappings and stage props, tinsel crowns and ketchup blood, pseudo-erudition and pseudo-mysteries; it is a ponderous vehicle for ideas and, worse, ideas that are by no means lucid in their exposition. Despite all the endless talk by intellectuals and Hollier's supposed Faustian anguish, the novel fails even in suggesting the passion of the life of the mind."
-- John Metcalf

Synopsis:
A fantasy of life in a small Toronto college. The plot revolves around the theft of an ancient Rabelaisian manuscript from the college library, and the efforts of the various factions within the faculty to recover or overlook it.

Index Author	davies robertson
Title	The rebel angels
Author	Robertson Davies
LCCN	82-015071 //r97
Subject	Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Canada -- Fiction.
Pub. and c dates	1983 1981
Published in	New York State
Publisher	New York :Penguin Books,1983, c1981.
Physical	326 p. ;18 cm.
ISBN	0140062718 pbk. :
General note	Sequel: What's bred in the bone.