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1	The Deptford Trilogy more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist Around a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels: "Fifth Business", often described as Robertson Davies' finest novel; "The Manticore", and "World of Wonders". Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic, "The Deptford Trilogy" provides an exhilarating antidote to a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Fifth Business more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist This novel exploring notions of fate and identity is an early work by one of modern Canada's most celebrated writers, the first in his Deptford Trilogy. The story portrays the complicated fortunes of four characters linked together by a snowball thrown on December 27, 1908 in the Canadian town of Deptford: Boy Staunton (who threw it), Mary ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	What's Bred in the Bone more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist Two angels tell the story of the life of Francis Cornish, an art collector and philanthropist, explaining how he moved from art forger to respectable and admired citizen. This witty novel is the second volume in Davies' "Cornish Trilogy". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Salterton Trilogy more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist People who do not know Salterton call it dreamy and old world. they say it is the place where Anglican clergymen go when they die. The real Saltertonians, however, know that there is nothing quaint about the place at all. With its two cathedrals, its one university, and its native sons and daughters busily scheming for their dreams, Salterton is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| SVS
5	The Cornish trilogy more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist One of Canadian author Robertson Davies' most dazzling achievements, "The Cornish Trilogy" explores the life and influence of eccentric art patron Francis Cornish and comprises "The Rebel Angels", "What's Bred in the Bone" (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1986) and "The Lyre of Orpheus". Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $7.94! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies add to wishlist A novel about an amateur group putting on a production of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST in a college town in Canada. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	World of wonders more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist A tale of fantasy and the stage, by the celebrated Canadian playwright and novelist. It describes the life and adventures of Magnus Eisengrim, the world's greatest magician, from his grim childhood in rural Canada to his years as a day-laborer and mechanic to his eventual triumph on the international stage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist Macabre and witty ghost stories by Robertson Davies, one of Canada's most celebrated writers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.84! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The rebel angels more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist Robertson Davies uses his magical touch to weave together the destinies of this remarkable cast of characters, creating a wise and witty portrait of love, murder, and scholarship at a modern university. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist As a novelist, playwright, editor, educator, and critic, Robertson Davies has made a substantial contribution to the cultural life of his native Canada. This is a collection of his journalistic work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The Lyre of Orpheus more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist This is the final volume in "The Cornish Trilogy" which began with "The Rebel Angels" and continued with "What's Bred in the Bone"(shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize). It describes the production of an opera and how the participants find its story uncannily mirrored in their own lives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Round Dance and Other Plays more books like this by Arthur Schnitzler, J M Q Davies (Translator), Professor Ritchie Robertson (Introduction by) add to wishlist This book features the plays - "Flirtations", "Round Dance", "The Green Cockatoo", "The Last Masks", "Countess Mizzi", "The Vast Domain", "Professor Bernhardi". The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de siecle Viennese decadence. "Round Dance", written in the late 1890s, exposes sexual life in Vienna with such ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.76! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Manticore more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist A humorous portrait of middle-aged despair, by the celebrated Canadian novelist. It concerns the confusion into which David Staunton, a successful middle-aged writer, is thrown as a result of his father's sudden death under mysterious circumstances. Staunton undergoes a course of Jungian analysis and discovers a good deal more about himself and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Cunning Man more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist The mysterious death of a priest at the High Altar on Good Friday sets into motion a story narrated by Dr. Jonathan Hullah, the physician who signed the priest's death certificate. The doctor looks back over his long life, from Sioux Lookout, Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s to Toronto in the 1980s. Hullah made a name for himself as an expert ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Merry Heart more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist A collection of writings from Robertson Davies including: reminiscences, speeches, book reviews, parodies essays and fragments of his unpublished diary. Subjects covered by the essays include: art fakery, schooldays, the differences between Canadians and Americans, Thackery, Ibsen, writing and reading. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.87! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Murther & Walking Spirits more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist A novel involving the narrator, who has been murdered by his wife's lover, observing the follies of mankind and wreaking his revenge. The author's book "What's Bred in the Bone" was shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize and "Leaven of Malice" was the winner of the Leacock Award for Humour. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	For Your Eye Alone more books like this by Robertson Davies, Judith Skelton Grant (Editor) add to wishlist This selection of the correspondence of the great Canadian novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) includes letters to family and friends, hostile critics, other writers, and various celebrities of his acquaintance. The letters begin in 1975 and end close to the end of his life, and they vividly capture Davies's chatty, engaging, intelligent, wide ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Mixture of Frailties more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist The story of a young girl's coming of age in Canada and abroad tells the story of Monica Gall, born in the small Ontario village of Salterton where, by all rights, she should have spent her life. However, a scholarship enables her to travel to Europe to study music, and, eventually, she becomes a celebrated singer. After several years abroad, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Modern Classics Selected Works On The Pleasures Of Reading by Robertson Davies add to wishlist see all copies from $6.99!
20	Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum more books like this by Robertson Davies, Michael Grant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Leaven of Malice more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist This comic novel portrays the confusion that ensues when someone publishes in a small-town newspaper the fraudulent engagement notice of the son and daughter of two rival academics, who have been feuding for years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Discoveries: Letters 1938-1975 more books like this by Robertson Davies, Judith Skelton Grant (Editor) add to wishlist On his publishers: They are so insufferably pretentious in theory and such botchers in practice. On his role as Master: God, how I loathe the young. Do you suppose we were such grasping, crooked, self-important cabbageheads as these? On projected BBC radio talks: They want me to give Marchbanks’ impressions of Britain. They seem to ... see all copies from $8.26! new only from $17.99! \| first editions
23 view cover	Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre more books like this by Robertson Davies, Brenda Davies, M.D (Introduction by), Jennifer Surridge (Introduction by) add to wishlist This autobiographical collection of pieces draws on Robertson Davies' life-long passion for the theatre, opera and music. It encompasses speeches and prologues to plays, a libretto for a children's opera, a suggestion for a film scenario and fragments from Davies' own diary. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Manticore: 6 more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist A humorous portrait of middle-aged despair, by the celebrated Canadian novelist. It concerns the confusion into which David Staunton, a successful middle-aged writer, is thrown as a result of his father's sudden death under mysterious circumstances. Staunton undergoes a course of Jungian analysis and discovers a good deal more about himself and ... see all copies from $1.99! SVS
25 view cover	Reading and Writing more books like this by Robertson Davies add to wishlist In this compelling volume, Robertson Davies makes an impassioned case for the cause of reading--and of reading intelligently. In making his argument, he rails against such evils as television, speed reading, and reductive book reviews, and he cites such writers (all of whom he admires) as Trollope, Nabokov, Dickens, and Balzac. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $59.95! \| first editions \| SVS

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