William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSL FRSC (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He...
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and literary executor of Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. Mathews was born in Melbourne, and met Davies at the University of Oxford. Sharing an interest...
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Maker". Davies has contributed to several film soundtracks in collaboration with composer and author Sebastian Robertson. Davies and Robertson contributed...
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executor of Robertson Davies Brian Davies, philosopher Brian Davies, birth name of British illustrator and cartoonist Michael ffolkes Bryan Davies (disambiguation)...
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The Deptford Trilogy (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
to 1975) is a series of inter-related novels by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. The trilogy consists of Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972)...
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Fifth Business (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
novel by Canadian writer Robertson Davies. First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1970, it is the first installment of Davies' best-known work, the Deptford...
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same characters or setting, such as The Deptford Trilogy of novels by Robertson Davies, The Apu Trilogy of films by Satyajit Ray, The Kingdom Trilogy of television...
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"Daniel Davies + Sebastian Robertson – Condemned (2015)". Something Else!. Retrieved December 27, 2015. Sebastian Robertson at IMDb Sebastian Robertson at...
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the life of a cuckold). A book by French Queen Maguerite de Valois Robertson Davies, Fifth Business David J. Ley, Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and...
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The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (category Short story collections by Robertson Davies)
journalist Robertson Davies. The other two books in this series are The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947) and Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967). Davies created...
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The Salterton Trilogy (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
Salterton Trilogy consists of the first three novels by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies: Tempest-Tost (1951), Leaven of Malice (1954), and A Mixture of Frailties...
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legendary Greek figure Orpheus The Lyre of Orpheus (novel), a novel by Robertson Davies Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, an album by Nick Cave and the...
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Robertson is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Robertson Davies (1913-1995), Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor...
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The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks (category Short story collections by Robertson Davies)
Marchbanks, a character created in 1944 by Canadian novelist and journalist Robertson Davies when he was editor of the Peterborough Examiner newspaper in the small...
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Happy Alchemy (category Books by Robertson Davies)
a collection of writings by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. The collection was edited after Davies' death in 1995 by his literary executors: his wife...
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A Voice from the Attic (category Books by Robertson Davies)
A Voice from the Attic is a collection of Robertson Davies' essays about reading aimed at intelligent and thoughtful readers, whom he calls the "clerisy"...
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World of Wonders (novel) (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
World of Wonders is the third novel in Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy. First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1975, this novel focuses on the life-story...
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Leaven of Malice (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
is the second novel in The Salterton Trilogy by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. The other two novels are Tempest-Tost (1951) and A Mixture of Frailties...
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through which he came to know Jung personally. The Canadian novelist Robertson Davies made Jungian analysis a central part of his 1970 novel The Manticore...
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Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (category Short story collections by Robertson Davies)
Robertson Davies. The other two books in this series are The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947) and The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949). Davies'...
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The Rebel Angels (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
The Rebel Angels is Canadian author Robertson Davies's most noted novel,[citation needed] after those that form his Deptford Trilogy. First published by...
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The Cunning Man (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
and Stewart in 1994, is the last novel written by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. The Cunning Man is the memoir of the life of a doctor, Dr. Jonathan...
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occurred. Thamesville is also the birthplace of famous Canadian author Robertson Davies who wrote the Deptford Trilogy of novels (Fifth Business, The Manticore...
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For Your Eye Alone (category Books by Robertson Davies)
letters by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. Editor Judith Skelton Grant provides a selection of letters written by Davies from the period starting in...
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The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (category Short story collections by Robertson Davies)
journalist Robertson Davies. The other two books in this series are The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949) and Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967). Davies created...
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written as purely local entertainments. Among these was Canadian writer Robertson Davies' A Masque of Aesop (1952), which was set at his trial in Delphi and...
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The Lyre of Orpheus (novel) (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
The Lyre of Orpheus is a 1988 novel by Canadian author Robertson Davies first published by Macmillan of Canada. Lyre is the last of three connected novels...
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The Manticore (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
The Manticore is the second novel in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy. Published in 1972 by Macmillan of Canada, it deals with the aftermath of the mysterious...
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What's Bred in the Bone (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
What's Bred in the Bone is the second novel in the Canadian writer Robertson Davies' Cornish Trilogy. It is the life story of Francis or Frank Cornish...
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Murther and Walking Spirits (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
novel by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. Murther and Walking Spirits is, in a way, another ghost story, a genre Davies visited in his short story...
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