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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

Combine Editions
Robertson Davies’s books

Average rating: 4.11 · 71,208 ratings · 4,425 reviews · 159 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 19,360 ratings — published 1970 — 97 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 4.32 avg rating — 8,101 ratings — published 1975 — 43 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 — 6,231 ratings — published 1985 — 62 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 — 6,400 ratings — published 1972 — 55 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) 4.03 avg rating — 5,764 ratings — published 1981 — 57 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 — 5,065 ratings — published 1975 — 60 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 — 3,327 ratings — published 1988 — 53 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 — 2,840 ratings — published 1994 — 3 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 — 2,417 ratings — published 1991 — 3 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 Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost / Leaven of Malice / A Mixture of Frailties 4.35 avg rating — 1,929 ratings — published 1986 — 15 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

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Series by Robertson Davies

The Deptford Trilogy (3 books)
by

Robertson Davies,

Wayne Johnston (Introduction)

4.11 avg rating — 38,920 ratings

The Cornish Trilogy (3 books)
by

Robertson Davies

4.19 avg rating — 17,736 ratings

The Salterton Trilogy (3 books)
by

Robertson Davies

4.17 avg rating — 7,114 ratings

Toronto Trilogy (2 books)
by

Robertson Davies

3.87 avg rating — 4,925 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

1026 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

985 likes

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

tags: authors, books, cats

388 likes

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Polls

2021 Order of the Author Reads (Jan thru Dec).
18 total. First 12 will be one a month the last 6 will be every other month.
The rest of the Authors will not make it.

Discussion or the Wish List:

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Edith Wharton

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

10 votes, 10.0%

Ernest Hemingway

9 votes, 9.0%

L.M. Montgomery

9 votes, 9.0%

Henry James

6 votes, 6.0%

James Fenimore Cooper

6 votes, 6.0%

Nathaniel Hawthorne

4 votes, 4.0%

Willa Cather

4 votes, 4.0%

Isak Dinesen

4 votes, 4.0%

Edna Ferber

4 votes, 4.0%

Sigrid Undset

4 votes, 4.0%

Halldór Laxness

3 votes, 3.0%

Pär Lagerkvist

3 votes, 3.0%

Margaret Laurence

3 votes, 3.0%

Robertson Davies

3 votes, 3.0%

Stephen Leacock

2 votes, 2.0%

Clarice Lispector

2 votes, 2.0%

Jack Kerouac

2 votes, 2.0%

Juan Rulfo

2 votes, 2.0%

Thomas Wolfe

2 votes, 2.0%

Rómulo Gallegos

0 votes, 0.0%

Mika Waltari

0 votes, 0.0%

100 total votes

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