Books by Robertson Davies

This is the third novel in Davies's major work, The Deptford Trilogy. This novel tells the life story of the unfortunate boy introduced in The Fifth ... More

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Around a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels. Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of ... More

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Davies triumphantly concludes the trilogy begun with The Rebel Angels. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the tutelage of Arthur Cornish, art ... More

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A goodhearted priest and scholar, a professor with a passion for the darker side of medieval psychology, a defrocked monk, and a rich young ... More

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At once ingenious and powerful, What's Bred in the Bone holds the usual rich mixture of Davies' delights. Soho prostitutes, secret agents, Bavarian ... More

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Dunstan Ramsey and his "lifelong friend and enemy, Percy Boyd Staunton," are both aged 10. It is a winter evening in the small Canadian village of ... More

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Who killed Boy Staunton? Around this central mystery is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels. Luring the reader ... More

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In the small university town of Salterton, Ontario, dreams are quietly taking shape, or falling apart. There's the Salterton Little Theatre Company, ... More

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"A Mixture of Frailties", the third volume of Robertson Davies "Salterton" Trilogy, is his first extended engagement with one of the great neuroses ... More

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The following announcement appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman: "Professor and Mrs Walter Vambrace are pleased to announce the engagement of ... More

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Recorded live at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United States, these audio anthologies feature short ... More

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In this compelling volume, Robertson Davies makes an impassioned case for the cause of reading--and of reading intelligently. In making his argument, ... More

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When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr Jonathan Hullah - whose holistic ideas have earned him the soubriquet ... More

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One of Canadian author Robertson Davies' most dazzling achievements, "The Cornish Trilogy" explores the life and influence of eccentric art patron ... More

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Two plays from the 1940s by the most important Canadian playwright of the postwar period.

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At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ... More

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Now in paperback, the book that marked the first appearance in the United States of Robertson Davies's mischievous alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks.

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The mysterious death of Canadian magnate Boy Staunton serves as the backdrop for this story narrated by his childhood friend Dunstan Ramsay, a man ... More

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One of North America's most beloved and acclaimed novelists presents a selection of his letters that for the first time gathers previously ... More

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In the 1940's - long before he became one of Canada's foremost novelists - Robertson Davies wrote a series of newspaper columns for the Peterborough ... More

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'I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead.' So begins the ... More

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The "stunning verbal energy and intelligence" ("The New York Times Book Review") of a beloved literary icon shine on in this new collection of 33 ... More

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First published in the U.S. last year, this updated collection contains the best of Robertson Davies' newspaper and magazine articles written over ... More

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Eighteen spooky ghost stories from the acclaimed author of "Fifth Business" are now gathered in one haunting collection.

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