Robertson Davies

Fifth Business (Penguin Modern Classics)

Michael Dirda

In the second book of the Deptford Trilogy, following Fifth Business, David Staunton, a successful man haunted by his relationship with his larger-than-life father, uses therapy to come to terms with his past. Reprint.

The Manticore

The Deptford Trilogy (King Penguin)

Tempest-tost (Salterton Trilogy)

Leaven of Malice (Salterton Trilogy)

Concha Cardeñoso

Lo que arraiga en el hueso

Alrededor de la misteriosa muerte del magnate canadiense Boy Staunton se teje la trama de esta novela. La narración corre a cargo de Dunstan Ramsay, amigo desde la infancia de Staunton, quien al intentar aclarar las circunstancias de su muerte no tendrá más remedio que enfrentarse al relato de su propia vida. Desde el principio de la historia, Ramsay ejerce una influencia mística y no del todo inocua en cuantos le rodean: acciones en apariencia inocentes -una pelea con bolas de nieve o el aprendizaje de trucos de cartas- se revelarán como acontecimientos decisivos en las vidas de otros. El quinto en discordia es una muestra de la maestría de Davies para la novela: su erudición le permite tratar los temas más diversos -el circo, el santoral, la primera guerra mundial, o la vida en un internado- con una naturalidad asombrosa; y su imaginación teatral logra cautivar al lector desde el inicio. La primera novela de la Trilogía Deptford, la más aclamada de Davies, se alza como la historia de un hombre racional que descubre en lo mágico un aspecto más de lo real.

El quinto en discordia

A Mixture of Frailties (Salterton Trilogy)

Composer Hulda Schnackenburg, priest scholar, and librettist Simon Darcourt, and director Arthur Cornish work to complete E.T.A. Hoffman's unfinished opera

The Lyre of Orpheus

Cornish Trilogy Omnibus

Salterton Trilogy Omnibus

Gathering Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders together, The Deptford Trilogy has been hailed as a modern classic and is available as an eBook for the first time. Woven around a mysterious death, the novels trace the rich and varied, and fatefully linked, lives of Dunstan Ramsay, David Staunton, and Magnus Eisengrim. Davies has created a beguiling, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels, luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history, and magic and providing an exhilarating antidote to a world from where “the fear and dread and splendor of wonder have been banished.”

Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders

The Deptford Trilogy

Hihg Spirits

Marchbanks' Almanack

Davies triumphantly concludes the trilogy begun with The Rebel Angels. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the tutelage of Arthur Cornish, art expert, collector, connoisseur, and notable eccentric.

, 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.

The Rebel Angels

Cornish Trilogy, 1. The Rebel Angels

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.

Selected Works on the Pleasures of Readings

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.

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