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Robertson Davies

Born

in Thamesville, Ontario, Canada

August 28, 1913

Died

December 02, 1995

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Daniel Defoe, Carl Gustav Jung, Charles Dickens, Thomas Mann, Sigmund ...more

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William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (died in Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is sometimes said to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto.

Novels:

The Salterton Trilogy
• Tempest-tost (1951)
• Leaven of Malice (1954)
• A Mixture of Frailties (1958)
The Deptford Trilogy
• Fifth Business (1970)
• The Manticore (1972)
• World of Wonders (1975)
The Cornish Trilogy
• The Rebel Angels (1981)
• What's Bred in the Bone (1985)
• The Lyre of Orpheus (1988)
The Toronto Trilogy (Davies' final, incompl ...more

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Robertson Davies’s books

Average rating: 4.11 · 75,222 ratings · 4,907 reviews · 113 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 20,735 ratings — published 1970 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deptford Trilogy 4.33 avg rating — 8,261 ratings — published 1975 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy, #2) 4.27 avg rating — 6,522 ratings — published 1985 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Manticore (The Deptford Trilogy, #2) by Robertson Davies, Kelly Link (Foreword), Michael Dirda (Introduction) 4.02 avg rating — 6,915 ratings — published 1972 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rebel Angels (The Cornish Trilogy, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 6,099 ratings — published 1981 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3) by Robertson Davies, Wayne Johnston (Introduction) 4.09 avg rating — 5,403 ratings — published 1975 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lyre of Orpheus (Cornish Trilogy, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 3,497 ratings — published 1988 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cunning Man (Toronto Trilogy, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 2,948 ratings — published 1994 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cornish Trilogy: The Rebel Angels / What's Bred in the Bone / The Lyre of Orpheus 4.44 avg rating — 2,482 ratings — published 1991 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tempest-Tost (Salterton Trilogy, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 2,153 ratings — published 1951	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Robertson Davies

The Deptford Trilogy (3 books)
by

Robertson Davies,

Wayne Johnston (Introduction)

4.11 avg rating — 41,313 ratings

The Cornish Trilogy (3 books)
by

Robertson Davies

4.18 avg rating — 18,600 ratings

The Salterton Trilogy (3 books)
by

Robertson Davies

4.16 avg rating — 7,496 ratings

Toronto Trilogy (2 books)
by

Robertson Davies

3.87 avg rating — 5,110 ratings

Quotes by Robertson Davies (?)

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality

1060 likes

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

999 likes

“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
― Robertson Davies

389 likes

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Polls

Please select the author you would like to read in November 2019. Poll ends 10/9/19.

Please note that if Mervyn Peake, Isaac Asimov, or Robertson Davies wins the poll, then there will not be a follow-up poll. This is because all 3 have a trilogy (and no other works) listed on James Mustich's list and we will read the first book in that author's trilogy if one of them win.

Isaac Asimov

6 votes, 37.5%

Jane Austen

3 votes, 18.8%

Samuel Beckett

2 votes, 12.5%

Robertson Davies

2 votes, 12.5%

Ernest Hemingway

2 votes, 12.5%

Mervyn Peake

1 vote, 6.3%

Robert A. Caro

0 votes, 0.0%

16 total votes

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