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

Two professors--one a goodhearted priest, the other a dabbler in the darker arts--becomes involved with graduate student Maria Theotoki, who knows the gospel of the angels who betrayed heaven's secrets

The Rebel Angels

The Deptford Trilogy (King Penguin)

The book shows Francis Cornish, an art expert born to a wealthy family in a small Ottawa Valley town, is a man of mystery to his nephew, Arthur, and to his disappointed biographer, Simon Darcourt.

What's Bred in the Bone

Wayne Johnston

Magnus Eisengrim, the illustrious magician star of a movie being filmed in Switzerland, spends his free time relating the sad story of his life to his director and producer, a cameraman, a mysterious hostess, and a Canadian schoolmaster, in the third volume of the Deptford Trilogy. Reprint.

World of Wonders

Murdered by his wife's lover, Gil must spend his afterlife seated next to his murderer at a film festival, where he views the exploits of his ancestors from the Revolutionary era to his parents' time

Murther & Walking Spirits

This novel tells the story of the cunning man, from boyhood to old age, who is a doctor but also possibly a shaman. In it the author explores religion, psychosymatic illness, love and death.

The Cunning Man

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

Tempest-tost (Salterton Trilogy)

A false engagement announcement, printed in the Salterton Evening Bellman and heralding the impending marriage of a university instructor and a professor's daughter, sets off a chain of misadventures and misunderstandings

Leaven of Malice

Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and erudite scholars of the University of St. John and the Holy Ghost, this dazzling trilogy of novels lures the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy that could only be the invention of Canada's grand man of letters.

The Cornish Trilogy

Robertson Davies first hit upon the notion of writing ghost stories when he joined the University of Toronto's Massey College as a master. A tradition quickly became established and, for 18 years, Davies delighted and amused the college's annual Gaudy Night guests with his tales of the supernatural. Here, in a handsome 25th Anniversary Edition, are those 18 stories, just as Davies first read them.

High Spirits

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

Around a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels. Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic, The Deptford Trilogy provides an exhilarating antidote to a world from where 'the fear and dread and splendour of wonder have been banished'.

A Mixture of Frailties

Now in paperback, the book that marked the first appearance in the United States of Robertson Davies's mischievous alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks.

The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks

The Salterton Trilogy

"The letters are frequently testy, tart, and not always "politically correct." Among those who felt his sting are Judith Skelton Grant, his biographer, and Douglas Gibson, his publisher, but other, more deserving targets are suitably chastised. And whether they are funny, moving, or thought provoking, these private letters provide a new look at the private Davies, revealed in his own vigorous words."--BOOK JACKET.

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