Robertson Davies

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

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....

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

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....

The Cornish Foundation must choose a worthy undertaking upon which to expend a portion of its considerable funds....

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

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....

"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....

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