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    The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders

    Robertson Davies

    At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay…

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    A Bibliography of Robertson Davies

    Carl Spadoni,Judith Skelton Grant

    Using Davies’ archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of…

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    Conversations with Robertson Davies

    A long overdue anthology of interviews with Canada’s most respected literary figure. Journalist, essayist, reviewer, playwright, and novelist, Robertson Davies has not only been a leading figure in Canadian literature…

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    One Half of Robertson Davies

    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…

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    Aspects of Robertson Davies’ Novels

    Victor J. Lams

    Completing the survey begun in Lams’ Cornish Trilogy volume, Aspects of Robertson Davies’ Novels discusses the Salterton and Deptford trilogies along with Davies’ last two novels, Murther & Walking Spirits…

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    Robertson Davies: Magician of Words

    Nicholas Maes

    Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the…

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    Robertson Davies: Magician of Words

    Nicholas Maes

    Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930s, editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist…

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    Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic

    Val Ross

    National bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best Book

    A fascinating, larger-than-life character, Davies left a treasure trove of stories about him when he died in 1995 - expertly arranged…

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    Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties

    Offers a collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies that addresses the basic problems in reading his work. This title looks at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony…

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    Robertson Davies and the Quest for a Canadian National Identity

    Sabine Jackson

    This book wants to make a contribution to the current discussion on Canadian identity. The author outlines the connection between the development of the Canadian national identity and Robertson Davies…

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    Robertson Davies and the Quest for a Canadian National Identity

    Sabine Jackson

    This book wants to make a contribution to the current discussion on Canadian identity. The author outlines the connection between the development of the Canadian national identity and Robertson Davies…

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    The Smaller Infinity: The Jungian Self in the Novels of Robertson Davies

    Patricia Monk

    The concepts of the Jungian theory of personality have long held considerable interest for Robertson Davies. This interpretive study discusses Davies’ use of Jungian psychology as both a structural and…

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    A Voice from the Attic

    Robertson Davies

    Outlining the delights of reading, the author tells of what mass education has done to readers, to taste, to books and to culture. The book covers writers from various countries…

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    Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

    Robertson Davies

    This autobiographical collection of pieces draws on Robertson Davies’ life-long passion for the theatre, opera and music. It encompasses speeches and prologues to plays, a libretto for a children’s opera…

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    Murther & Walking Spirits

    Robertson Davies

    ‘I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead.’ So begins the…

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    The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books

    Robertson Davies

    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…

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    The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business; The Manticore; World of Wonders

    Robertson Davies

    Features a trilogy of novels including: Fifth Business ; The Manticore ; and, World of Wonders .

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    A Mixture of Frailties

    Robertson Davies

    Part of Salterton trilogy, this third volume begins with the funeral of Louisa Bridgetower, the Salterton matron. The substantial income from her estate is to be used to send an…

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    Leaven of Malice

    Robertson Davies

    Following the announcement that appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman aimed at three people only - Solly Bridgetower, Pearl Vambrace, and Gloster Ridley, the anxiety-ridden local newspaper editor - before…

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    Tempest Tost

    Robertson Davies

    With a sure comic touch, Davies assembles his cast of characters and lets them make fools of themselves … in the best Shakespearean tradition. –The Emerald City Book Review Weaving…

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    Tempest-Tost: The Salterton Trilogy, Book 1

    Robertson Davies

    An amateur production of The Tempest provides a colorful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love. Mathematics teacher Hector Mackilwraith, stirred and troubled by Shakespeare’s play, falls in love…

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    High Spirits

    Robertson Davies

    This collection of spooky stories was written for and read at the annual gaudy night each year at Massey College, where the author was master for many years. The ghost…

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    The Cunning Man

    Robertson Davies

    When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr Jonathan Hullah - whose holistic ideas have earned him the soubriquet ‘cunning man’ - wants to know…

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    Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

    Robertson Davies

    Two plays from the 1940s by the most important Canadian playwright of the postwar period.

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    The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks

    Robertson Davies

    This compendium volume includes three volumes of newspaper columns by Davies’ alter-ego, Samuel Marchbanks, a character Davies invented when he had a vacancy for a columnist on The Peterborough Examiner…

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    Murther & Walking Spirits

    Robertson Davies

    ‘I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead.’ So begins the…

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    What’s Bred in the Bone

    Robertson Davies

    From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, an expert art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the events…

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    Lyre of Orpheus

    Robertson Davies

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

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    The Rebel Angels

    Robertson Davies

    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.

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    The Cornish Trilogy: What’s Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus

    Robertson Davies

    The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died…

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    The Cunning Man

    Robertson Davies

    When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr Jonathan Hullah - whose holistic ideas have earned him the soubriquet ‘cunning man’ - wants to know…

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    The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, A Mixture of Frailties

    Robertson Davies

    In the small university town of Salterton, Ontario, dreams are quietly taking shape, or falling apart. There’s the Salterton Little Theatre Company, in which professional director Valentine Rich is tormented…

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    Leaven of Malice: Large Print Edition

    Robertson Davies

    The following announcement appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman ‘Professor and Mrs. Walter Vambrace are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Pearl Veronica, to Solomon Bridgetower Esq, son…

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    The Lyre of Orpheus: The Cornish Trilogy, Book 3

    Robertson Davies

    When the Cornish Foundation decides to fund the production of an opera entitled Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold, the participants find their lives begin to resemble the opera’s…

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    What’s Bred in the Bone: The Cornish Trilogy, Book 2

    Robertson Davies

    From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, an expert art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the events…

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    A Treasury of Bedtime Stories

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    The Manticore

    Robertson Davies

    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…

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    World of Wonders

    Robertson Davies

    This is the third novel in Davies’s major work, The Deptford Trilogy. This novel tells the life story of the unfortunate boy introduced in Fifth Business, who was spirited away…

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    Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair Macleod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others

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    Readers follow Doug Gibson through 40 years of editing and publishing some of Canada’s sharpest minds and greatest storytellers. Subjects include writers Alistair MacLeod, Alice Munro, and Mavis Gallant, and…

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    Leaven of Malice

    Robertson Davies

    Following the announcement that appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman aimed at three people only - Solly Bridgetower, Pearl Vambrace, and Gloster Ridley, the anxiety-ridden local newspaper editor - before…

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    Douglas Gibson Unedited: On Editing Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Mavis Gallant, Jack Hodgins, Alistair Macleod, Etc.

    Christine Evain,Douglas Gibson

    In the context of the highly commercial system of publishing, the role of the publisher is constantly questioned and challenged. The purpose of this volume is to highlight the work…

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    Fifth Business

    Robertson Davies

    The first novel in Davies’s celebrated Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross who is destined to be caught in…

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    Eine praxisorientierte Analyse von UEbersetzungsstrategien in einer literarischen UEbersetzung: Der kanadische Roman The Rebel Angels von Robertson Davies in der deutschen UEbersetzung von Stefanie Schaffer

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    Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Dolmetschen / UEbersetzen, Note: 1,3, Technische Hochschule Koeln, ehem. Fachhochschule Koeln (ITMK), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den letzten 20 Jahren ist das Interesse…

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    Eine praxisorientierte Analyse von UEbersetzungsstrategien in einer literarischen UEbersetzung: Der kanadische Roman The Rebel Angels von Robertson Davies in der deutschen UEbersetzung von Stefanie Schaffer

    Sergej Sajzew

    In den letzten 20 Jahren ist das Interesse am Thema der UEbersetzungsstrategien deutlich gewachsen. Dabei wurde im Vergleich zum Bereich der technischen und fachspezifischen UEbersetzung das Gebiet der Literaturubersetzung seltener…

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    Keep on Keeping on

    Jean Davis

    This is the story of Ron Davis, a charismatic young man who struggled to beat a 12 year addiction to drugs, only to be brutally murdered at the age of…

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    Keep on Keeping on

    Jean Davis

    This is the story of Ron Davis, a charismatic young man who struggled to beat a 12 year addiction to drugs, only to be brutally murdered at the age of…

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    A Most Important Collection of High Art Objects from China and Japan: Property of M. Sichel, rue Pigalle, Paris, and R.A. Robertson, Yokohama, Japan

    Harvey Davis &

    A Most Important Collection of High Art Objects from China and Japan - Property of M. Sichel, rue Pigalle, Paris, and R.A. Robertson, Yokohama, Japan is an unchanged, high-quality reprint…

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