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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


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

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Average rating: 4.11 · 73,400 ratings · 4,678 reviews · 102 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Fifth Business (The Deptfor...
4.06 avg rating — 20,069 ratings — published 1970 — 101 editions
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The Deptford Trilogy
4.33 avg rating — 8,178 ratings — published 1975 — 44 editions
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What's Bred in the Bone (Co...
4.27 avg rating — 6,397 ratings — published 1985 — 63 editions
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The Rebel Angels (The Corni...
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The Lyre of Orpheus (Cornis...
4.12 avg rating — 3,430 ratings — published 1988 — 57 editions
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The Cunning Man (Toronto Tr...
3.93 avg rating — 2,903 ratings — published 1994 — 61 editions
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The Cornish Trilogy: The Re...
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The Salterton Trilogy: Temp...
4.35 avg rating — 1,955 ratings — published 1986 — 16 editions
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Series by Robertson Davies

Fifth Business The Manticore World of Wonders
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“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality
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“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
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“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
― Robertson Davies
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