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William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSL FRSC (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished " men of letters ", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. [1]
William Robertson Davies (Thamesville, 28 de agosto de 1913 - Orangeville, 2 de dezembro de 1995) foi um novelista, crítico, jornalista e professor canadense. É considerado um dos autores mais conhecidos e popular do país, e um dos "homens de letras" distinguidos do país, um apelido que alguns dizem que Davies aceitou com agrado ...
William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (died in Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is sometimes said to have detested.
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Robertson Davies has 161 books on Goodreads with 149722 ratings. Robertson Davies’s most popular book is Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1).
Robertson Davies was a novelist and playwright whose works offer penetrating observations on Canadian provincialism and prudery. Educated in England at the University of Oxford, Davies had training in acting, directing, and stage management as a member of the Old Vic Repertory Company.
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2 de abr. de 2008 · A Companion of the Order of Canada, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, Robertson Davies is widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s most brilliant and influential essayists and novelists.
1 de jan. de 2001 · 8,106 ratings424 reviews. 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 ...
