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	Amazon.ca: Deptford Trilogy: Books: Robertson Davies
		Before the Deptford books, he wrote The Salterton Trilogy (Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, A Mixture of Frailties), and after it came The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, The Lyre of Orpheus).
		The Deptford Trilogy is a strong suite of novels, cunningly wrought and well worth your time.
		The Deptford Trilogy is a rich, rewarding read, encompassing layers upon layers of plot, theme, character.
	www.amazon.ca /Deptford-Trilogy-Robertson-Davies/dp/0140147551 (2878 words)

	RCF Vol. XX, no. 1_Sven Birkerts
		There is a key question to ask at the outset about any extended work: whether it originated as such in the author's mind, or whether it may not have more the nature of a house added onto as inspiration came or need arose.
		I am led to wonder-and will not know until I have read the trilogy entire-whether it happens that the logic of destruction (fission as undoing the fabric of life) ultimately feeds into a vision of unsettled and displaced characters coming to interact in ways that can ultimately be grasped as restorative.
		Morrow informs me that the third book of his trilogy will be set just a few years in the future, and that he plans to intercut into the text certain nonfictional passages, mainly the transcribed words of people he has met whose lives have bearing on his project.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/RCF_extracts/00_1_birkerts.html (2081 words)

	immediacy: The Cornish TrilogyThe Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, The Lyre of Orpheus
		After being so thoroughly delighted with Davies' Deptford trilogy, I immediately purchased this collection (it was a choice between the Cornish and the Salterton trilogy, and the Cornish won because (1) Dwight Brown recommended it and (2) the store had it).
		As in the Deptford trilogy, nothing "fantastic" occurs, although the secret manuscript is definitely a fictional device and not something that exists in our world.
		I have purchased the Salterton trilogy, which is begging from the shelf to be read, and I expect that you will see mention of it in the next installment.
	www.engel-cox.org /text/the_cornish_trilogythe_rebel_a.html (743 words)

	The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
		Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide.
		Around a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels.
		Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic, THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY provides an exhilarating antidote to a world from where 'the fear and dread and splendour of wonder have been banished'.
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140147551,00.html (244 words)

	trilogy \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that are connected and can generally be seen as a single work as well as three individual ones.
		Most trilogies are works of fiction involving the same characters or setting, such as The Deptford Trilogy of novels by Robertson Davies or The Godfather films of Francis Ford Coppola.
		Eine Trilogie ist ein inhaltlich zusammengehörendes literarisches, musikalisches oder filmisches Werk, welches aus drei Teilen besteht.
	www.babylon.com /definition/trilogy/All (408 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Riddle-Master: The Complete Trilogy
		In the first book of the trilogy, The Riddle-Master of Hed, Morgon, the Prince of Hed, leaves his rural island home to claim the bride he inadvertently won as a result of a riddle game with a dead king's ghost.
		She struggles to deny her shape-shifting heritage, and is confronted with the necessity of embracing it to save the land and the people she loves.
		Harpist in the Wind concludes the trilogy: war between the shape-shifters and the land rulers is inevitable, with Morgon as the focus.
	www.sfsite.com /05a/rid56.htm (1085 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| The Deptford Trilogy \| Robertson Davies
		One of the most ambitious works of fiction of the twentieth century, Robertson Davies’s Deptford Trilogy reaches from rural Canada to the Swiss Alps and introduces a cast of characters as varied and fascinating as any in recent literature.
		The trilogy’s most enigmatic character, the magician Magnus Eisengrim, both enacts and elicits a sense of wonder, as he satisfies “a hunger that almost everybody has for marvels” (The Manticore, p.
		Ramsay, David Staunton, and Magnus all tell their life stories in novels of the Deptford Trilogy.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/deptford_trilogy.html (1493 words)

	FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » Bottum: On Robertson Davies
		, the second in the “Salterton Trilogy,” recounts the events that follow when a false notice announcing the wedding between two children of professors from the local university is maliciously placed in the newspaper of a small Canadian city.
		Wise and witty, it is simultaneously Davies’ funniest novel and his kindest—a nearly Dickensian novel that exposes the foibles of its characters but refuses to leave them shamed beyond redemption.
		, the first novel in the “Deptford Trilogy.” The story of the endless consequences that unfold from a single snowball thrown by a schoolboy in a small village before Word War I, the novel follows through life a pair of boys as they advance in the Canadian social world.
	www.firstthings.com /onthesquare/?p=501 (659 words)

	Amazon.com: The Deptford Trilogy: Books: Robertson Davies
		The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost Leaven of Malice a Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies
		Throughout the trilogy, Davies interweaves moral concerns and bits of arcane lore.
		The novels trace the lives of three men from the small town of Deptford, Ont., connected and transformed by a single childhood event: Percy "Boy" Staunton throws a snowball containing a stone at Dunstable (later Dunstan) Ramsay.
	www.amazon.com /Deptford-Trilogy-Robertson-Davies/dp/0140147551 (732 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Deptford Trilogy: Books: Robertson Davies
		It is immensely rich in its characters and descriptions, which cover the First World War, life on the road with a travelling freakshow and a spell of Jungian analysis and a wealth of human experience from childhood to old age.
		Disappointingly, the narrative does tail off slightly in the latter chapters of the "World of Wonders", the third of the trilogy, namely because the characters involved seem like historical relics, making it frustratingly difficult to identify with their experiences, which is never the case during the first two books.
		This trilogy is the perfect antidote to anyone who feels that the 20th (never mind the 21st) century lost its sense of the spiritual and of enduring values.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Deptford-Trilogy-Robertson-Davies/dp/0140147551 (970 words)

	THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY
		In The Deptford Trilogy the worlds of wonder within the human psyche make a triumphant return.
		Here Magnus Eisengrim (formerly Paul Dempster), preparing for a film role in which he is to play Robert-Houdin, the master illusionist, tells his side of the story.
		If you are comfortable only with ordinary perceptions of reality, perhaps you'll find The Deptford Trilogy unsatisfactory: if you're in search of wonder and magic and psychological truth, though, Davies' trilogy will speak to you eloquently and passionately.
	www.umanitoba.ca /cm/cmarchive/vol16no1/deptfordtri.html (440 words)

	BBC/OU Open2.net - Reading on Open2 - The Deptford Trilogy
		Let us know what you think in the Deptford Trilogy debate.
		Each book in the trilogy centres around a principal character.
		Ramsay provides the "glue" which sticks the trilogy together.
	www.open2.net /reading/deptfordtrilogy.html (299 words)

	Cunning Man Review
		The novels fit generally into trilogies: The Salterton Trilogy, The Deptford Trilogy, and The Cornish Trilogy, in order of composition, represent his first nine novels.
		All his novels, however, can be read independently (although at least The Deptford Trilogy probably reads best in order.) To say, as I have said, that his novels are "about Canada" is a laughable understatement, however.
		I tried to summarize the subjects which Davies covered once for a friend, thinking it would be a tidy list, and I kept going and going: Theatre, Music, Vaudeville, Toronto, Hagiography, Jungian Psychology, Art (particularly "The Old Masters"), aging, medicine, Canadian politics, war, finance, schools (both Canadian "boarding schools" and Universities), and on and on.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/cunning.htm (537 words)

	Canadian Author Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy - Associated Content
		The lives of the three individuals from each book in the trilogy are linked through their involvement of the seemingly insignificant throwing of a snowball.
		His theory is based on Jungian psychology, which revolves around the role of dreams on an individual and the influence of the ego, the innermost region of the mind, on the self.
		Davies' Deptford Trilogy, set in the quaint Canadian village of Deptford, examines the phenomenal lives of three individuals who are linked through thier involvement in one seemingly insignificant incident, the throwing of a snowball.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/18242/canadian_author_robertson_davies_deptford.html (610 words)

	The Deptford trilogy door Robertson Davies \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Throughout the trilogy, Davies interweaves moral concerns and bits of arcane lore.
		The novels trace the lives of three men from the small town of Deptford, Ont., connected and transformed by a single childhood event: Percy "Boy" Staunton throws a snowball containing a stone at Dunstable (later Dunstan) Ramsay.
		It clocks in at over 800 pages, and as the weekend drew to a close I realised that I was going to have difficulty finishing it before we left, so I put in a late night and raced to the last page.
	www.librarything.nl /work.php?book=15171 (836 words)

	Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy is like a warm bath to read, a mixture of great charcterisation and clever plot.
		The three books, available as a collection under one cover and published by Penguin, revolve around the mysterious death of a Canadian Millionaire and spans most of the first three quarters of the 20th Centuary.
		The First, a childhood and adult friend, the second, his son and the third, a magician from the same small Canadian town of Deptford which gives the trilogy its name.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/deptford-trilogy-robertson-davies (253 words)

	Welcome to The Children's Bookcase
		Audrey is summoned to the Starwife, a wise and powerful squirrel, who offers to save one of Audrey's friends who is dying, on the condition that she gives up her life with her family at The Skirtings and goes to live in Fennywolde as a life long companion to the mad Moroccan Rat, Madame Akkikuyu...
		Each of the books in the trilogy make a riveting read, they are action-packed page turners that are written in bold, rich, colourful language.
		However, you should be aware that the story and action is pretty dark and violent in places (essential elements given that The Deptford Mice books are the story of a vicious battle between Good and Evil) and for this reason we would not recommend this series for young, sensitive readers.
	www.thechildrensbookcase.com /book_details.cfm?p_id=0-3407-8863-1 (328 words)

	Robertson Davies' The Deptford Trilogy
		The Deptford Trilogy is often lauded as the pinnacle of Davies’ writings.
		Saints are, throughout the book, an odd obsession of Dunstable’s, and reoccur as a theme in a variety of forms, from his own quest for a personal saint to repeated events in his own life mimicking the various, obscure mythologies of the sainthood.
		It is thus with this review that I encourage anyone with a taste in fictional literature who hasn’t already to grab The Deptford Trilogy at their earliest convenience.
	www.procyon.com /~froody/why/text/dept.html (1640 words)

	Novalis Entertainment - The Deptford Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Deptford Trilogy is the name given to three related novels by Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies.
		The Deptford Trilogy has won praise for its narrative voice and its use of character.
		The greatest secret is one that we are not even aware of until the close of the last book, but knowing it finally answers questions about the relationships of several major characters.
	www.novalisentertainment.com /projects/the_deptford_trilogy.shtml (195 words)

	The Unburied by Charles Palliser - an infinity plus review
		The early Davies (The Deptford Trilogy) invited readers into worlds of wonder, whereas later (The Cornish Trilogy) he assaulted us with irascible preachiness.
		He is the boy whose brush with violence marks his life forever (recalling--though in no way imitative of--the boyhood escapade of Dunstan Ramsay that kicks off The Deptford Trilogy).
		The main text, "edited by" the narrator of the framing sequence, is a first-person account describing the week Edward Courtine, a historian from Cambridge, spent in the small community of Thurchester.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/unburied.htm (800 words)

	Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy - Literature Network Forums
		Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy - Literature Network Forums
		The Trilogy consitst of the following three books, Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders.
		I am very confident (8)) that these books would be well recieved if they were made apart of the authors list of books people can look at in the site.
	www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?t=304 (232 words)

	Young Naturalist Awards
		Davies has achieved international recognition as a writer of fiction, and he seems to have been particularly drawn to trilogies: The Salterton Trilogy, The Deptford Trilogy, and The Cornish Trilogy.
		His work has not been limited only by the trilogy format; he has also written various essays, plays, and traditional novels.
		Shortly after reading Fifth Business, the first book in his Deptford Trilogy, I couldn't wait to begin the second book of the trilogy: The Manticore.
	www.amnh.org /nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards/2002/winners.html (5030 words)

	For Your Eye Alone: Robertson Davies' Letters, 1976-1995 - PowerBookSearch!
		This volume covers the years from 1976, when he was 63, to his death in 1995; during this period, he was at last a successful public figure, as the master of Massey College at the University of Toronto and the successful novelist of the Deptford Trilogy.
		One of the best Canadian novelists of the 20th century, Davies (1913-95) is known for his "Deptford" and "Salterton" trilogies, among other works.
		By turns theatrical and moral, his novels, comprising the Deptford Trilogy and the Cornish Trilogy, were above all imaginative, a quality he dilates on to many of his correspondents, which here range from ordinary fans to harsh critics such as novelist Joyce Carol Oates.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0670892912.html (1583 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: The Merry Heart (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Even though we cannot look forward, ever, to the enchantment of reading a sequel to his 1994 "The Cunning Man" (the opening novel of the projected Toronto Trilogy) -- mirabile dictu, Robertson Davies still has magic up his sleeve.
		If you are already acquainted with Robertson Davies, the above announcement should suffice -- indeed, should cause you to go camp on the doorstep of your bookstore until the first shipment of this new volume arrives.
		If you are not yet acquainted with Davies -- his Deptford Trilogy, his Salterton Trilogy, his Cornish Trilogy, or his 20 or so other volumes of stories, plays, and essays -- then "The Merry Heart" is a good introduction.
	www.bookpage.com /allencolibrary/9708bp/nonfiction/themerryheart.html (266 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 123, D-F
		The first book in his acclaimed Deptford trilogy.
		This is the second state, with the corrected table of contents: a fine copy in a near fine, first issue dust jacket slightly worn at the spine extremities.
		The first American edition of the third book in the Deptford trilogy.
	www.lopezbooks.com /catalog/123/123-03.html (2039 words)

	The Deptford Mice Homepage
		A small company of mice are plunged into a world of danger and magic in The Deptford Mice Trilogy.
		Follow the lives, loves and tragedies that befall them as they struggle to protect their own safe world against an almighty evil...
		All three Deptford Mice titles are now available as talking books.
	www.robinjarvis.com /deptfordhome.html (131 words)

	chapters.indigo.ca: Books: Cornish Trilogy
		Combining The Rebels Angels, What's Bred in the Bone and The Lyre of Orpheus into one volume, The Cornish Trilogy is an execution of amazing literary sensibility, offering readers as much intrigue as it does style.
		Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and erudite scholars of the University of St. John and the Holy Ghost, this dazzling trilogy of novels lures you into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy that could only be the invention of the inimitable Robertson Davies.
		Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright, literary critic and essayist, was born in 1913 in Thamesville, Ontario.
	www.chapters.indigo.ca /books/item/books-0140158502?PRODUCTTYPE=1&AFFID=103870 (470 words)

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