Article: Obituary: Professor Robertson Davies

Article: Books that made a difference to Ellen Pompeo: the best medicine ...
O, The Oprah Magazine;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... he said, "I think every guy should read it." I thought he was right. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Deptford Trilogy By Robertson Davies My sister told me to get this trilogy--she gives me lists of things to read about every six weeks ...

Article: Temples and tabernacles: alternative religions in the fictional ...
International Fiction Review;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... developing fictional microcosms. Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, and Alice Munro ... religious denominations: in Davies's Deptford Trilogy--Fifth Business (1970), The ... identity. (4) To begin with Davies's Deptford Trilogy, in Fifth Business (1970), Dunstan ...

Article: Robertson Davies' Magic
The Washington Post;  January 7, 1996 ;     700+ words ...ROBERTSON DAVIES Man of Myth By Judith Skelton Grant ... 35 THE TERRITORY of wonder that Robertson Davies means to reclaim in his marvelous ... s family in Ontario, William Robertson Davies grew up under a distant but beloved ...

Encyclopedia entry: Robertson Davies
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      597 words ...Robertson Davies (William Robertson Davies) dā´vĬs , 1913-95, Canadian ... satiric romance that explores Canadian life and culture. The Deptford Trilogy— Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972 ...

Article: NOVELIST ROBERTSON DAVIES' ESSAYS PROVIDE POTENT ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  July 31, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... when it is as diverting as Robertson Davies' ``The Merry Heart ... A major character in his Deptford Trilogy is a conjurer. When the books ... the roof and disappeared. Robertson Davies practiced the same beguiling ...

Article: The Gospel According to John Irving
The Washington Post;  March 5, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... hilarious and satisfyingly long. The central situation owes a debt (gracefully acknowledged by Irving) to Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy, where a complex and mythic chain of events is set in motion by a carelessly thrown snowball that has ...

Article: Giller winner Boyden embraces heritage
Winnipeg Free Press;  November 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... first novel. Percolating in his mind now is the third in what he has long conceived as a trilogy. "Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy made a big impact on me," says Boyden, who was interviewed in Winnipeg at the recent Thin Air writers ...