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Fifth Business explores themes of memory and consequence through the recollections of Rearrangement Phillips, a retired professor contemplating a pivotal event from his youth at Brookfield Hall. Set in the 1970s within the Canadian university system, the novel examines how a seemingly insignificant...
Robertson Davies's 1981 novel opens the Cornish trilogy at a fictional University of Toronto college, blending Renaissance scholarship, Gypsy lore, and dark comedy.
Robertson Davies's 1975 novel concludes the Deptford trilogy through the life story of Magnus Eisengrim, a celebrated Canadian illusionist.
Robertson Davies's 1988 novel concludes the Cornish trilogy as a college foundation funds the contentious completion of an unfinished opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Robertson Davies's 1972 Deptford trilogy novel, structured as a Jungian analysis, won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in Canada.
Robertson Davies's 1985 Cornish trilogy novel traces the secret life of art collector Francis Cornish and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Robertson Davies's 1954 novel, second in the Salterton trilogy, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and turns on a maliciously planted false engagement notice.
Robertson Davies's 1951 debut novel, first in the Salterton trilogy, is set in a small Ontario city and revolves around a fractious amateur theatrical production.
Robertson Davies's 1994 novel, his last completed work, unfolds through a Toronto doctor's memoirs and examines the intersections of medicine, religion, and art.
The Murther & Walking Spirits is a 1991 novel by Canadian author Robertson Davies that uniquely combines a murder mystery plot with deep literary and film criticism elements.
