New Releases by Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies is the author of One Half of Robertson Davies (2019), The Merry Heart (2019), Happy Alchemy (2019), A Voice from the Attic (2019), Un hombre astuto (2016).

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One Half of Robertson Davies

release date: Apr 23, 2019
One Half of Robertson Davies
A collection of speeches on literature, academia, and more by the “extremely entertaining novelist and public speaker” (The Washington Post). These public addresses by the acclaimed Canadian man of letters and New York Times-bestselling author Robertson Davies provides portraits of literary personalities, advice on writers and writing, and comments on academia and the modern world. Whether giving advice to schoolgirls, discussing the Age of Aquarius as seen by alchemists, exploring Jungian psychology in the theater and insanity in literature, or telling us how to design a haunted house, Davies brings to all his subjects the same intensity and marvelous craftsmanship that are the hallmarks of his fictional creations.

The Merry Heart

release date: Apr 23, 2019
The Merry Heart
“A splendid gallimaufry of the eminent Canadian’s talks and essays, mostly about literature and the creative life . . . a thought-filled and amusing book.”—The Washington Post For devotees of Davies and all lovers of literature and language, here is the “urbanity, wit, and high seriousness mixed by a master chef,” vintage delights from an exquisite literary menu (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Robertson Davies’s rich and varied collection of writings on the world of books and the miracle of language captures his inimitable voice and sustains his presence among us. Coming almost entirely from Davies’s own files of unpublished material, these twenty-four essays and lectures range over themes from “The Novelist and Magic” to “Literature and Technology,” from “Painting, Fiction, and Faking,” to “Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?” and “Creativity in Old Age.” Davies himself says merely: “Lucky writers . . . like wine, die rich in fruitiness and delicious aftertaste, so that their works survive them.” “Splendid—wise, witty, wide-ranging.”—The New York Times Book Review “Some of Davies’s ideas are iconoclastic, and will delight those who share them while stimulating those who do not. All his judgments are interesting, steeped in humanism, and most elegantly put.”—The Atlantic Monthly “The inimitable novelist gives an exuberant posthumous performance in this eclectic collection of (mostly) previously unpublished addresses, talks, and incidental pieces . . . Davies diffuses his opinions entertainingly, if occasionally superficially, but never loses his audience.”—Kirkus Reviews

Happy Alchemy

release date: Apr 22, 2019
Happy Alchemy
The acclaimed playwright, novelist, and author of Fifth Business explores the performing arts in this witty and insightful essay collection. Though best known for his award-winning fiction, Robertson Davies enjoyed a long and varied career as an actor, playwright, journalist and critic. Happy Alchemy collects an equally diverse range of Davies’ writings—including speeches, articles, prologues to plays, a ghost story set to music, and even a scenario for a film. In this eclectic volume, Davies shares his many musings on music, theatre, opera, and more. These pieces, many of them published here for the first time, touch on topics from Greek tragedy to Scottish Folklore and from Lewis Carroll to Carl Jung.

A Voice from the Attic

release date: Apr 22, 2019
A Voice from the Attic
A collection of essays “filled with pleasantly rambling opinions about everything from self-help books to erotica” from the celebrated Canadian author (The Chronicle Journal). An urbane, robust, and wonderfully opinionated voice from Canada, sometimes called “America’s attic,” speaks here of the delights of reading, and of what mass education has done to readers today, to taste, to books, to culture. With his usual wit and breadth of vision, Robertson Davies ranges through the world of letters—books renowned and obscure, old and recent; English, Irish, Canadian, and American writers both forgotten and fondly remembered. “Sweet reason in the raiment of well-woven prose? Most assuredly. Good humor agraze over broad literary demesnes? No doubt of it. Forgotten popular favorites rescued and rehabilitated? Certainly. A parade of agreeable prejudices? He would not be a true Canadian if he did not have them. Lightheartedness where needed? Yes. Seriousness where it counts? Yes. Wit, satirical touches, firm indignations, sound sense, good taste, judiciousness, cosmopolitan breadth of view, urbanity, sanity, unexpected eccentricities, educated humanism? By all means. It is indeed by all these means and more that this book of essays and observations bestows its multiple benefactions, and anyone picking it up is bound north to pleasure and profit.”—The New York Times

Un hombre astuto

release date: May 08, 2016
Un hombre astuto
Cuando el padre Hobbes muere misteriosamente en Toronto durante la celebración del Viernes Santo, el doctor Jonathan Hullah, cuyos heterodoxos métodos clínicos le han valido el apodo de «el Hombre Astuto», decide averiguar el porqué. Azuzado por una joven periodista que investiga la figura del padre Hobbes, Hullah, el protagonista de esta memorable historia, vuelve la vista atrás en busca de respuestas y repasa una vida plagada de acontecimientos y personajes inolvidables. Con su excepcional inteligencia narrativa, hecha de una rara combinación de ritmo y atención por el detalle y un sentido del humor tan demoledor como hilarante, Davies se sirve de un extraordinario personaje para demostrar que la religión y la ciencia, la poesía y la medicina, son los diferentes caminos que el hombre emprende para intentar desentrañar el misterio de la existencia. El resultado es una fascinante novela, la última y seguramente una de las mejores de Robertson Davies, que confirmó a su autor como uno de los más destacados novelistas del siglo xx. «Un autor que, en su canto de cisne, parece haberlo dado todo: una novela llena de ideas, un juego intelectual donde la vida resulta fácil de soportar.» Diego Gándara (La Razón) «Leyendo este libro se comprende todo lo bueno que Davies aprendió de Dickens y todo lo bueno que John Irving sacó de Davies (de quien llegó a ser amigo). Y se concluye que sólo Iris Murdoch o Anthony Burgess estuvieron a la altura de Davies a la hora de elevar y fundir la alta cultura con el puro acontecer del más noble y ocurrente de los folletines.» Rodrigo Fresán (ABC Cultural) «Es el más brillante, divertido e inteligente novelista de nuestro tiempo, y me atrevería a decir, de nuestro siglo.» John Kenneth Galbraith «La cálida energía de Davies y su atención por los detalles conducen la historia de este particular doctor y sus amigos. Una historia ingeniosa, impredecible y absorbente.» San Francisco Chronicle «Davies compone una suerte de gran ópera novelada, repleta de personajes emblemáticos, intrigas arquetípicas, arias conmovedoras y un reparto brillante.» The Washington Post Book Word «Una delicia, una novela que recorre setenta años de historia; un libro sobre el amor y la sabiduría, sobre la pérdida y la ironía.» The Boston Sunday Globe «Esta es una novela sabia, humana y tremendamente entretenida. La curiosidad y el talento de Davies resultan tan ágiles como siempre y su repertorio de conocimientos, un placer constante.» The New York Times

A Celtic Temperament

release date: Oct 06, 2015
A Celtic Temperament
Versatile and prolific, Robertson Davies was an actor, journalist and newspaper publisher, playwright, essayist, founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and one of Canada’s greatest novelists. He was also an obsessive, complex, and self-revealing diarist. His diaries, which he began as a teenager, grew to over 3 million words and are an astonishing literary legacy. This first published selection of his diaries spans 1959 to 1963, years in which Davies, in mid-life, experienced both daunting failure and unexpected success. Born in Thamesville, Ontario, in 1913, he was educated at local schools, then Upper Canada College, Queen’s University and Oxford University. He worked in England at the famous Old Vic theatre as an actor and literary advisor before returning to Canada where he became the editor and publisher of the Peterborough Examiner, established himself as a prominent Canadian playwright, and published his first three novels now known as the Salterton Trilogy. By 1959, at the age of forty-five, Robertson Davies was already one of Canada’s leading literary figures. Even so the diaries show that he was frustrated by the limitations of his literary success, often exasperated with the distractions of his daily life and buffeted by his mental and emotional state. They also show that he enjoyed life, was deeply interested in the society he lived in, and in the people he encountered. More often than not he found comedy in the world around him and delighted in recording it. He kept not only a daily journal, but also more focused diaries such as his accounts of the Toronto and New York production of his play Love and Libel, when he worked closely with the great British director Tyrone Guthrie, and of the founding of Massey College, the brainchild of Vincent Massey. The descriptions of backstage and academic politics are invariably entertaining, but in his diaries Davies also reveals himself as intensely self-critical, frequently insecure, and with a highly changeable nature that he described as his “celtic temperament.” We also see him as a partner in an intensely happy and creative marriage, and as a man with an astonishing capacity for hard work. By the end of 1963 his life had taken a new direction. As master of Massey College, he finds himself a public figure, but he is increasingly preoccupied with a new novel he wants to write which he is calling Fifth Business. The publication of A Celtic Temperament establishes Robertson Davies as one of the great diarists. In their range, variety, intimacy, and honesty his diaries present an extraordinarily rich portrait of the man and his times.

Asesinato y ánimas en pena

release date: Sep 27, 2015
Asesinato y ánimas en pena
Connor Gilmartin, director de la sección de espectáculos del Advocate, un periódico de Toronto, sorprende a su mujer en la cama con otro hombre. El amante, que casualmente es un crítico del mismo diario, termina asesinando al atónito marido.Sin embargo, este hecho no supondrá la completa desaparición de Connor, ya que su fantasma perseguirá al homicida hasta un importante festival de cine. Y mientras el crítico se esfuerza en analizar los largometrajes que proyectan, espectro y lectores nos convertimos en espectadores privilegiados de unas peculiares películas sobre la historia de la familia Gilmartin. En la oscuridad de la sala, sentado junto a su asesino, realidad y ficción terminarán por confundirse... Con su tono más humorístico, Davies nos ofrece el fantástico retrato de un hombre cuya vida se ve repentinamente truncada, pero que renace a otro tipo de existencia mucho más lúcida y libre. En la cumbre de su talento, el maestro canadiense nos regaló una de sus mejores obras, una nueva muestra de su talento que aúna reflexión y entretenimiento, sabiduría y emoción. Asesinato y ánimas en pena nos devuelve a Robertson Davies en estado puro.

Penguin Modern Classics Fifth Business

release date: Aug 19, 2014
Penguin Modern Classics Fifth Business
Fifth Business, which one critic said was "as masterfully executed as anything in the history of the novel," might be described simply as the life of a schoolteacher named Dunstan Ramsay. But such description would not even suggest the dark currents of love, ambition, vengeance, and death that flow through this powerful work, cast in the form of Ramsay''s memoirs. Fifth Business is the first novel in the celebrated Deptford Trilogy, which also includes The Manticore and World of Wonders--it also stands alone as the story of a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.

Espíritu festivo

release date: Nov 18, 2013
Espíritu festivo
«A pesar de la afición que he tenido toda la vida a los cuentos de fantasmas jamás se me ocurrió escribir ninguno hasta que fui a Massey College, facultad y residencia universitaria de la Universidad de Toronto, en 1963. Por Navidad celebrábamos siempre una fiesta a la que invitábamos a algunos amigos y era preciso dar algo de espectáculo. Abundaban las personas de talento, como poetas y músicos, pero se esperaba que yo hiciera también alguna aportación, y se me ocurrió que podía ser un relato de fantasmas, el primero del presente libro. Durante los dieciocho años que estuve en la residencia, todas las Navidades me pedían que escribiera un cuento, y aquí están, reunidos en un libro, con la esperanza de que los disfruten otros entusiastas de esta clase de literatura.» Así explicaba Robertson Davies en el prólogo a la primera edición de este libro, de 1982, la razón de ser del mismo. Los fantasmas de Dickens, la reina Victoria o Ibsen son algunos de los espíritus festivos que habitan un libro en el que la maestría de Davies se muestra en todo su esplendor. Unos fantasmas que el lector llegará a necesitar «como quien necesita un suplemento dietético, unas vitaminas para atajar una de las dolencias modernas más temibles: el raquitismo racional». «Davies es uno de esos narradores —de ahí que lo suyo suene tan vital y despierto— que producen la sensación de estar a nuestro lado, yendo apenas dos o tres líneas por delante, soltando risitas de placer anticipando lo que nos espera.»Rodrigo Fresán (ABC) «Davies es un mago cuya puesta en escena no tiene tramoya ni apela a la superstición; sus herramientas son la imaginación y la felicidad, ambas afinadas por lo que él mismo calificaba de “compromiso vitalicio con la compasión”.» Nadal Suau (El Cultural)

Una mezcla de flaquezas

release date: Jun 02, 2012
Una mezcla de flaquezas
La apertura del testamento de Louisa Bridgetower deja atónita a la ciudad de Salterton: su hijo Solly no herederá un centavo hasta que haya tenido un hijo y buena parte de su fortuna se deberá destinar a la educación de una joven artista. Los albaceas seleccionarán a Monica Gall, la solista de un peculiar conjunto de gospel local a la que enviarán a estudiar a Inglaterra. El arte, el genio, la formación artística, la música, el amor, las relaciones paternofiliales, las peculiaridades canadienses... son temas recurrentes en la obra de Davies que aquí son tratados magistralmente a través de la figura de Monica Gall, la joven cantante de Salterton a la que la herencia de la señora Bridgetower cambiará hasta extremos que ella jamás hubiera imaginado. Tercera entrega del ciclo de novelas independientes que se terminará conociendo como Trilogía de Salterton, la pluma de Davies logra en esta novela un vivo retrato del alma humana, que acaso no sea en verdad otra cosa que una mezcla de flaquezas. «Davies es uno de esos narradores –de ahí que lo suyo suene tan vital y despierto—que producen la sensación de estar a nuestro lado, yendo apenas dos o tres líneas por delante, soltando risitas de placer anticipando lo que nos espera.» Rodrigo Fresán (ABC) «Davies es un mago cuya puesta en escena no tiene tramoya ni apela a la superstición; sus herramientas son la imaginación y la felicidad, ambas afinadas por lo que él mismo calificaba de “compromiso vitalicio con la compasión”. (...) En las novelas de Robertson Davies, como en los mitos que tanto lo fascinaban, cabe el mundo.»Nadal Suau «Ingenioso, erudito, entretenido... Davies despliega todas las cualidades de un Trollope tardío y nos muestra cómo es el Canadá moderno..»Anthony Burgess (The Observer)

A merced de la tempestad

release date: Jan 01, 2011
A merced de la tempestad
Fruto de su larga experiencia teatral, la primera novela que escribió Robertson Davies es un divertido homenaje a las grandezas y miserias de los escenarios y a la vida que revolotea en torno a ellos. El Teatro Joven de Salterton, una compañía amateur, va a poner en marcha una representación de La tempestad de Shakespeare en los bellos jardines de St. Agnes, la vetusta y extravagante residencia de George Alexander Webster y sus hijas, Griselda y Freddy. Los preparativos de la obra revolucionan St. Agnes, para desesperación del abnegado jardinero Tom, pero también la vida de cuantos participan en ella. En especial la del taciturno profesor de matemáticas y tesorero de la compañía Hector Mackilwraith, que se propone variar su anodina vida presentándose al casting y que asombrosamente consigue hacerse con uno de los papeles. De ahí a sumarse a la larga lista de pretendientes de la joven Griselda y perder la cabeza, sólo hay un paso. A merced de la tempestad, publicada por primera vez en 1951, está ambientada en la ciudad imaginaria de Salterton, donde Davies situaría las otras dos novelas que junto a ésta forman la Trilogía de Salterton.

Modern Classics Selected Works On the Art of Writing

release date: Mar 11, 2008
Modern Classics Selected Works On the Art of Writing
Robertson Davies wrote in most forms: plays, novels, diaries, articles, book reviews, play reviews, editorials, children’s and adult short stories (including ghost stories), television plays, libretti, an oratorio, poems, and speeches. The greater part of this collection is speeches, made throughout his life; also included are three articles and a poem.

Selected Works on the Pleasures of Readings

release date: Jan 01, 2008
Selected Works on the Pleasures of Readings
Robertson Davies gave many speeches over the years, and one of his favourite topics at these events was reading. The greater part of this collection is speeches, made throughout his life; also included are essays, ghost stories, and a children''s short story.

Lo que arraiga en el hueso

release date: Jan 01, 2008
Lo que arraiga en el hueso
Robertson Davies engages us in the fascinating history of Francis Cornish, a wealthy and mysterious Canadian collector and patron of the arts who has just died. Beginning with the chance circumstances that lead to his parents’ marriage, and including his unorthodox artistic formation and his sexual initiation, the novel narrates the various stages of his life and recounts the development of his character. This is how we discover the source of his fortune as well as his past as a painting restorer and falsifier, talents which led him to become a part of British espionage during World War II and to participate in a plot to sell falsified artwork to Nazis. With this novel, Davies weaves an ingenious tale about the reasons, passions, and intrigue that drive the art world. Although it can be read independently, this novel is the second installment of The Cornish Trilogy. Robertson Davies nos sumerge en la fascinante historia de Francis Cornish, un acaudalado y misterioso mecenas y coleccionista de arte canadiense que acaba de morir. Comenzando con las azarosas circunstancias que propician el matrimonio de sus padres, y pasando por su heterodoxa formación artística y su iniciación amorosa, la novela va recorriendo las distintas etapas de su vida y dando cuenta del desarrollo de su carácter. Es así como se descubre el origen de su fabulosa fortuna y se desvela su pasado como restaurador de pintura y falsificador, habilidades que durante la segunda guerra mundial le llevarían a formar parte del espionaje británico y a participar en una trama de venta de obras de arte falsas a los nazis. Davies crea en esta novela un ingenioso relato sobre las razones, pasiones e intrigas que mueven el mundo del arte. Aunque puede ser leída independientemente, esta novela es el segundo libro de la Trilogía de Cornish.

El mundo de los prodigios

release date: Mar 28, 2007
El mundo de los prodigios
En El mundo de los prodigios, cierre y espectacular colofón de la Trilogía de Deptford, se resuelve el misterio que rodea la muerte del magnate Boy Staunton. Acciones en apariencia inocentes -una pelea con bolas de nieve o el aprendizaje de juegos de manos- se revelarán como acontecimientos decisivos en la vida de Paul Dempster, un niño de Deptford al que Staunton había conocido en su infancia y que, andando el tiempo, se convertiría en Magnus Eisengrim, el prestidigitador más famoso de su época. En esta novela, es Eisengrim quien contará su vida, ofreciendo su particular visión de la muerte de Staunton y explicando cómo aprendió su oficio y llegó a convertirse en un ilusionista de fama mundial. Su relato revelará hasta qué punto el camino hacia el éxito es más arduo y trágico de lo que parece a simple vista y cómo, una figura brillante, puede contar también con un oscuro pasado. El mundo de los prodigios, continuación de El quinto en discordia y Mantícora, retrata los entresijos del teatro, la magia y el cine con la habitual maestría de Davies y, para muchos, es el mejor y más emocionante libro de la trilogía. «Uno de los más cultivados, entretenidos y logrados novelistas de nuestro tiempo y de todo el siglo.»John Kenneth Galbraith «Davies es autor de una de las obras narrativas más consistentes del siglo XX.»Xavi Ayén (La Vanguardia) «Uno de los hallazgos literarios de la temporada.»Toni Montesinos (La Razón)

El cinquè en joc

release date: Jan 01, 2007
El cinquè en joc
La trama d’aquesta novel·la gira al voltant de la misteriosa mort del magnat canadenc Boy Staunton. Dunstan Ramsay, amic de Staunton des de la infantesa, n’és el narrador que, en l’intent d’esbrinar les circumstàncies d’aquesta mort, es veurà abocat a enfrontar-se al relat de la pròpia vida. Des del principi de la història, Ramsay exerceix una influència mística i no del tot innòcua en aquells que l’envolten: accions en aparença innocents una baralla amb boles de neu o l’aprenentatge de trucs de cartes es revelaran com esdeveniments decisius en la vida d’altres. El cinquè en joc és una mostra del domini de Davies en l’art de la novel·la: la seva erudició li permet tractar els temes més diversos el circ, l’hagiografia, la primera guerra mundial o la vida en un internat amb una naturalitat sorprenent; així com la seva imaginació teatral li permet captivar el lector des de l’inici. La primera novel·la de la Trilogia de Deptford, la més aclamada de l’autor, s’erigeix com la història d’un home racional que descobreix en allò màgic un aspecte més de la realitat.

Mantícora

release date: Oct 13, 2006
Mantícora
La misteriosa muerte del magnate canadiense Boy Staunton -al que han encontrado ahogado dentro de su coche en el fondo del puerto de Toronto- ha trastornado a su hijo David, quien al contrario que la policía, está convencido de que su padre fue asesinado. Decidido a librarse de su obsesión, David viaja a Zúrich para psicoanalizarse en el Instituto Jung. Obligado por los psiquiatras a indagar en su memoria, David irá sacando a la luz una extraordinaria galería de personajes y recuerdos que le permitirán enfrentarse con sus propios demonios y, sobre todo, con la memoria de su padre. Aunque puede ser leída de manera independiente, esta novela constituye la segunda parte de la Trilogía de Deptford, tras El quinto en discordia /i. Esta vez Davies se adentra en las regiones más profundas de la mente humana, en aquellas donde se agazapan nuestros monstruos. A través de los laberínticos túneles de la historia, el mito y la magia, la Trilogía de Deptford proporciona un estimulante antídoto contra un mundo donde, por decirlo en palabras del autor, «el miedo, el terror y el esplendor de lo maravilloso han desaparecido». «La de Davies es una escritura de carácter simbólico anclada en un realismo lleno de inventiva, imaginación y agudeza. Un regalo esplendoroso en estos tiempos de facilonería y falsedad, vamos.»José María Guelbenzu (El País) «Davies es el eslabón perdido entre Charles Dickens y John Irving.»Rodrigo Fresán «Lo menos que se puede decir de él es que es un escritor maduro y sabio.»Anthony Burgess

The Manticore

release date: Feb 28, 2006
The Manticore
The second book in Robertson Davies''s acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies’s acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. The Manticore—the second book in the series after Fifth Business—follows David Staunton, a man pleased with his success but haunted by his relationship with his larger-than-life father. As he seeks help through therapy, he encounters a wonderful cast of characters who help connect him to his past and the death of his father. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

World of Wonders

release date: Feb 28, 2006
World of Wonders
The third book in Robertson Davies''s acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies’s acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. World of Wonders—the third book in the series after The Manticore—follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim—the most illustrious magician of his age—who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the Wanless World of Wonders. After honing his skills and becoming better known, Magnus unfurls his life’s courageous and adventurous tale in this third and final volume of a spectacular, soaring work. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Un homme remarquable

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Un homme remarquable
En quoi Francis Cornish est-il remarquable ?Telle est la question à laquelle doivent répondre l''ange Zadkiel et le démon Meinas, chargés de rédiger sa biographie.Né en 1908 à Blairlogie, au Canada, Cornish s''évade vers un monde imaginaire qui n''appartient qu''à lui. Ce peintre génial, à la vocation contrariée, devient un expert reconnu par tous les musées du monde, un agent du contre-espionnage anglais et, probablement, le plus grand faussaire du siècle.Mais sa vraie vie est ailleurs ; dans ce monde peuplé de figures énigmatiques, gouverné par d''autres lois que celui des mortels, et où il poursuit sa quête, entraînant dans son sillage des mages, des sybilles et des anges. [payot.ch]

For Your Eye Alone

release date: Jan 01, 2002
For Your Eye Alone
Robertson Davies, one of the twentieth century''s most distinguished authors, brought his characteristic great sense of style to everything he wrote. Whether it was a letter to his daughter or a formal letter to the editor disemboweling a hostile review, he wrote with care, zest, and in a distinctive voice. Penned during the height of his fame-between the years 1976 and 1995-these letters were sent to a wide range of recipients, from Sir John Gielgud to Margaret Atwood, from publishers to fans and critics of his writings. The letters are frequently testy, tart, and not always "politically correct"; but whether they are funny, moving, or thought provoking, they provide a rare glimpse of the private Davies, as r evealed in his own words.

Fifth Business

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Fifth Business
The first book in Robertson Davies''s acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man''s land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Rebel Angels

release date: Jan 01, 1997
The Rebel Angels
, defrocked monks, mad professors, and wealthy eccentrics-a remarkable cast peoples Robertson Davies'' brilliant spectacle of theft, perjury, murder, scholarship, and love at a modern university. Only Mr. Davies, author of Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, could have woven together their destinies with such wit, humour-and wisdom.

Tempest-tost

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Tempest-tost
amateur production of The Tempest provides a colourful backdrop for an hilarious look at unrequited love. Mathematics teacher Hector Mackilwraith, stirred and troubled by Shakespeare''s play, falls in love with the beautiful Griselda Webster. When Griselda shows that she has plans of her own, Hector despairs and tries to commit suicide on the play''s opening night.

La lyre d ́Orphée

release date: Jan 01, 1996
La lyre d ́Orphée
Qui se cache derrière la fondation Cornish ? Une secte d''adorateurs du Graal ? Ou, tout simplement, un groupe de mécènes fidèles à l''esprit de leur bienfaiteur ? Mystères. Une chose est sûre : lorsqu''ils décident de monter un opéra d''Hoffmann, dont le livret inachevé vient d''être retrouvé, ils ignorent que cette initiative va provoquer une réaction en chaîne incontrôlable. Ainsi s''achève la " trilogie de Cornish ", fresque littéraire dont chaque volet est indépendant des autres, mais dont l''ensemble forme une saga unique en son genre.

A Gathering of Ghost Stories

release date: Sep 01, 1995

Hunting Stuart and The Voice of the People

release date: Sep 01, 1994
Hunting Stuart and The Voice of the People
An Ottawa civil servants royal connection and a letter to the editor are the themes from two of Davies best plays.

Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

release date: Sep 01, 1993
Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast
Two plays from the 1940s by the most important Canadian playwright of the postwar period.

Leaven of Malice [text (large Print)]

release date: Jan 01, 1993
Leaven of Malice [text (large Print)]
This humorous novel explores the reactions of a small town to a false engagement notice in the local paper.
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