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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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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Maker". Davies has contributed to several film soundtracks in collaboration with composer and author Sebastian Robertson. Davies and Robertson contributed...
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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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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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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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Davies was the father of author Robertson Davies, Arthur Davies and Fred Davies. He died in Toronto in 1967 while in office as senator. "Robertson Davies"...
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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 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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Sebastian Robertson is a Canadian-American non-fiction children's author, musician, composer, and studio engineer. As a children's author, Robertson has written...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Cornish Trilogy (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
by Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies. The trilogy consists of The Rebel Angels (1981), What's Bred in 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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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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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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freak?" And you say, "Impossible" As he hands you a bone. In the 1975 Robertson Davies novel World of Wonders, the narrator, Paul, tells how as a boy he was...
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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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A Mixture of Frailties (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
is the third novel in The Salterton Trilogy by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. The other two novels are Tempest-Tost (1951) and Leaven of Malice...
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College (1963–81) was the celebrated Canadian journalist and author Robertson Davies. Professor Patterson Hume was the second head (1981–88), and Professor...
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August 2019. William Barry Urquhart (1975). Jungian Psychology in Robertson Davies' Fifth Business and The Manticore: The Hero and His Quest. Thesis (M...
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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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