A Bibliography of Robertson Davies

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Author: Carl Spadoni

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 1442667281

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Robertson Davies (1913–1995), one of Canada’s most distinguished authors of the twentieth century, was known for his work as a novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. This descriptive bibliography is dedicated to his writing career, covering all publications from his first venture into print at the age of nine to works published posthumously to 2011. Entries include each of Davies’ signed publications and those pseudonymous or anonymous writings he acknowledged having written. Included are his plays, novels, journalism, academic writing, translations, interviews, speeches, lectures, unsigned articles and editorials, films, audio recordings, and multimedia editions. Also listed is a generous sampling of unsigned articles and editorials. Using Davies’ archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history scholars.

Robertson Davies, an Annotated Bibliography

Robertson Davies, an Annotated Bibliography PDF

Author: Judith Skelton Grant

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13:

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Presents information about Canadian author Robertson Davies (1913-1995). Contains a biographical sketch, a selected bibliography, interviews, reviews, photographs, quotations, obituaries, and offers access to a mailing list.

High Spirits

High Spirits PDF

Author: Robertson Davies

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0771027826

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The fruits of an eighteen-year tradition of Massey College’s annual Gaudy Nights, Robertson Davies’ High Spirits still delights and amuses to this day. Published as an eBook for the first time. In the Introduction to this collection of charming stories, Robertson Davies notes we all need “ghosts as a dietary supplement . . . to stave off that most dreadful of modern ailments, the Rational Rickets.” In one tale, Mr. Davies introduces the ghost of Henrik Ibsen; in another, he brings us face to face with a bust of Charles Dickens, whose “scarlet lips . . . parted in a terrible smile” and whose “beard stirred in a hiccup of repletion.” Sixteen other apparitions manifest themselves, each rendered with Robertson Davies’ special touch–a bit of parody, a touch of true scariness–and all emanating from high spirits.

World of Wonders

World of Wonders PDF

Author: Robertson Davies

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-02-28

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0525505520

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The third book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies’s acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. World of Wonders—the third book in the series after The Manticore—follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim—the most illustrious magician of his age—who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the Wanless World of Wonders. After honing his skills and becoming better known, Magnus unfurls his life’s courageous and adventurous tale in this third and final volume of a spectacular, soaring work. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Prestige

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Author: Christopher Priest

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1997-09-15

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780312858865

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In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in a darkened salon during the course of a fraudulent séance, and from this moment they try to expose and outwit each other at every turn.

Modern Classics Selected Works On the Art of Writing

Modern Classics Selected Works On the Art of Writing PDF

Author: Robertson Davies

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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Robertson Davies wrote in most forms: plays, novels, diaries, articles, book reviews, play reviews, editorials, children’s and adult short stories (including ghost stories), television plays, libretti, an oratorio, poems, and speeches. The greater part of this collection is speeches, made throughout his life; also included are three articles and a poem.

The Art of Fiction

The Art of Fiction PDF

Author: David Lodge

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1448137799

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In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Robertson Davies, Playwright

Robertson Davies, Playwright PDF

Author: Susan Stone-Blackburn

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0774843330

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In this book, Susan Stone-Blackburn studies how the tastes and concerns of one of Canada's leading writers have been given dramatic expression, beginning with The King Who Could Not Dream and Benoni and ending with Question Time and Pontiac and the Green Man. She also examines how Davies' playwriting has been influenced by the dominant tastes of his time and by the conditions under which his plays have been performed. Dealing with the plays chronologically, Stone-Blackburn reveals Davies' fondness for theatricality as opposed to realism, for mythic flavour and archetypal character, his romanticism, and his irrepressible humour.

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