Robertson Davies

The second novel in Davies' acclaimed Cornish trilogy looks at how underlying medieval patterns surface in modern lives....

"Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die....

"Professor and Mrs. Walter Vambrace are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Pearl Veronica, to Solomon Bridgetower, Esq., son of ..."....

A goodhearted priest and scholar, a professor with a passion for the darker side of medieval psychology, a defrocked monk, and a rich young businessman are all helplessly beguiled by the same coed....

For years, Robertson Davies has won acclaim for his warmth and wisdom, humor and bravura. Now Canada's leading man of letters crowns an astonishing literary career with a novel in the spirit of his best-selling Murther and Walking Spirits. "Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr...

Hailed as a modern classic, Robertson Davies' acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven....

The Manticore follows David Staunton, a man pleased with his success but haunted by his relationship with his larger-than-life father....

An amateur production of The Tempest provides a colorful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love....

This first novel in The Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide....

Connor Gilmartin's inauspicious, but much beloved, mortal life comes to an untimely end when he discovers his wife in bed with one of his more ludicrous associates, Randall Allard Going. Death becomes a bit complicated when Gilmartin's out-of-body experience stays an out-of-body experience...

There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation must choose a worthy undertaking...

A Mixture of Frailties is so much more than the story of Monica Gall's life in London and her education as a singer....