Robertson Davies, Author Viking $21.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-84189-9
The unexpected conceit devised by the author of the Deptford trilogy will surprise but likely not disappoint his fans. Shortly into the first chapter, narrator Connor Gilmartin, entertainment editor for a Canadian newspaper, is killed by his wife's...
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Robertson Davies, Author Viking $23.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-670-85911-5
Admirers of Davies who may have felt somewhat of a falling off in his last two books can be reassured: The Cunning Man is a superb return to the high form of the Deptford trilogy and What's Bred in the Bone. It's a novel in which Davies' clear-sighte
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Robertson Davies, Author Penguin Books $20 (480p) ISBN 978-0-14-024830-2
Canadian novelist Davies's latest concerning the mysterious death of a Catholic priest, was a PW bestseller for seven weeks. (Feb.)
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Robertson Davies, Author Penguin Books $15 (448p) ISBN 978-0-14-009711-5
Born into an eccentric, wealthy Canadian family, Francis Cornish endures a lonely and pious upbringing to become a respected art appraiser and collector. This is the tantalizing story of his transformation, related with satisfying moments of...
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Robertson Davies, Author Penguin Books $15 (480p) ISBN 978-0-14-011433-1
The third volume of the Cornish trilogy revolves around the staging of an unfinished opera by a 19th century composer. ``Packed with interesting details of opera history and production, boasting some new, eccentric characters, and pulling together...
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Robertson Davies, Author Viking Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80916-5
Known to discerning readers for his beguiling Deptford Trilogy and the more recent Rebel Angels, Canadian author Davies has written another irresistible novel. His story of the secret life of Francis Cornish, full of ironic twists and surprises, has
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Robertson Davies, Author Viking Books $19.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-670-82416-8
The third volume of the Cornish trilogy has less mystery and suspense than The Rebel Angels and What's Bred in the Bone , but there are still rewards for the reader. This is a deeper, more thoughtful and old-fashioned book, somewhat padded with...
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Robertson Davies, Author Penguin Books $13.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-016884-6
Davies's fans will not be disappointed by this clever novel, narrated posthu mously by a newspaper editor cuck olded and killed by a film critic. (Dec.)
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Robertson Davies, Author University of Utah Press $12.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-87480-426-3
Novelist Davies, master of Massey College of the University of Toronto, delivered this volume's two essays in the Tanner Lectures series at Yale in 1991. In them he surprises, delights and educates with his views of literature's power to ``reveal...
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Robertson Davies, Author, Judith Skelton Grant, Editor Viking Books $19.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-82994-1
From the early 1940s on, Canada's greatest living novelist wrote weekly newspaper and magazine articles and book reviews. Of the 93 reprinted here, 33 are about ``characters,'' 34 about books and 26 about himself--his interests (Shakespeare),...
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Robertson Davies, Author, Judith Skelton Grant, Editor Viking Books $29.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-89291-4
In amassing the first collection of the late Canadian novelist's letters, Davies's biographer Grant (Robertson Davies: Man of Myth) discovered many had actually been framed, which says something about not only Davies's status as grand old man of...
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Robertson Davies, Author, Brenda Davies, Editor, Jennifer Surridge, Editor Viking Books $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-88019-5
Last year, Davies's widow, Brenda, and their daughter, Jennifer Surridge, worked to compile The Merry Heart, a collection of Davies's speeches and writings on reading, writing and books. Davies had consented to the plans for that book in the last...
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Robertson Davies, Author, Judith Grant, Editor Penguin Books $9.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-14-012659-4
In this collection of 93 reprinted newspaper and magazine articles, Davies discusses such figures as Chaucer, Jung, Whitman and Wodehouse; reviews books; and describes his own interests: Shakespeare, book collecting and scrapbook keeping. ``Each...
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Gail Godwin, Author, Ana Menendez, Author, Robertson Davies, Author Symphony Space $28 (0p) ISBN 978-1-934033-01-2
This audio collection takes in a range of creatures and wry twists that form a timely antidote to the current trend of putting pets on pedestals. The most notable tale is Gail Godwin\x92s \x93St. George,\x94 in which Curtin captures both the...
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Edited by Jennifer Surridge and Ramsay Derry. McClelland & Stewart, $32.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-7710-2764-2
Robertson Davies (1913–1995), one of Canada's foremost authors, was also an actor, journalist, newspaper publisher, playwright, essayist, and devoted diarist. Surridge, one of Davies's three daughters, has transcribed and edited this collection of...
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