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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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, and The Kingdom Trilogy...
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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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"Daniel Davies + Sebastian Robertson – Condemned (2015)". Something Else!. Retrieved December 27, 2015. Sebastian Robertson at IMDb Sebastian Robertson at...
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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 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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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 Rebel Angels (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
author Robertson Davies. First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1981, The Rebel Angels is the first of the three connected novels of Davies' Cornish...
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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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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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Gibson, Douglas. Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others. (ECW Press, 2011.) Excerpt...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Gothic applies a similar sensibility to a Canadian cultural context. Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, Barbara Gowdy, Timothy Findley, and Margaret Atwood have...
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Tempest-Tost (category Novels by Robertson Davies)
is the first novel in The Salterton Trilogy by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. The other two novels are Leaven of Malice (1954) and A Mixture of...
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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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