Books
by Robertson Davies
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The Cornish Trilogy: What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus |
Want to escape from this real world? Here's another spellbinding trilogy from the author of The Deptford Trilogy (bwl 90). The titles alone are enough to stir the imagination. We follow the life, death and legacy of Francis Cornish, a Toronto art patron. Amongst the cast of characters are eccentric professors, a defrocked monk, a beautiful gypsy's daughter . . . A page-turning saga of academic and artistic life involving theft, murder and love in twentieth century Canada and underlying all, Davies's delicious sense of humour!
(Jenny Baker - bwl 105 Summer 2022) |
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The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders |
A small village in Canada, at 5.58 p.m. on 27 December 1908 a snowball is thrown, a little boy ducks and a heavily pregnant woman falls to the ground. This action will determine the lives of the three main protagonists - school-teacher Duncan Ramsay, sugar-baron Boy Staunton and Paul Dempster whose birth it precipitates - and whose destiny will be the most extraordinary of all. I had never read any of Robertson Davies's books and when I began this trilogy I wasn't even sure I wanted to, instead I was under his spell all through the summer. Here is a world which is real and often uncomfortable but always there is a feeling of magic and wonderment. Who did kill Boy Staunton? What is a Manticore? - read and find out!
(Jenny Baker - bwl 90 Autumn 2018) |
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The Deptford Triology |
The Deptford Triology interlaces the story of three extremely different characters in a gripping book that moves from continent to continent with imagination,intrigue and continual surprise. This is a good, fat book that gives hours of extremely satisfying reading.
(Ange Guttierez Dewar - bwl 54 November 2009) |
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The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, A Mixture of Frailities |
Set in a small university town dreams are quietly taking shape, or falling apart. The professional director of The Little Theatre Company is tormented by his amateur actors; two families are locked in a feud, a fortune with no male heir is lavished on an aspiring singer. Beneath the veneer of geniality and good manners, passions are simmering. Another delicious trilogy with such evocative titles from this acclaimed Canadian author.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 106 Autumn 2022) |
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