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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780140159103 ISBN: 014015910X Label: Penguin Books, Inc. Manufacturer: Penguin Books, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 808 Publication Date: November 01, 1991 Publisher: Penguin Books, Inc. Studio: Penguin Books, Inc. Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Entertaining and Well WrittenI'd read the Cornish Trilogy and some of the Deptford Trilogy a few years before picking up the Salterton Trilogy. I read the Salterton books straight through, and enjoyed them. Unlike the other two, the Salterton Trilogy struck me as just a little dated, not because it doesn't discuss email or reflect recent political developments, but because social mores have changed somewhat over the last half-century, and so at times it seems a bit quaint. I could be quite wrong, but I suspect that even in ... Read More Rating:  - Should Be the Last Davies Book You ReadI am an incredible Davies fan, and have lived in and/or travelled to many of the places he writes about. This trilogy takes place in "Salterton", a thin veiling for Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Queen's University, located there. Unlike his other university-set novels, Salterton features contempt for the frivolity of faculty and persons who live in a small town. While not entirely inaccurate in his portrayal of a small university-centered Canadian town, it doesn't relish academia in ... Read More Rating: - Quaint? I think notRobertson Davies' "Salterton Trilogy" is a well-written, often funny and sometimes poignant look at the realistically odd occupants of Salterton, the deceptively quaint Canadian city with two cathedrals and one university. "Tempest-Tost" opens with the organization of an amateur production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." A motley crew of actors join it, including an exuberent professor, his quiet daughter, a quiet mama's boy, a beautiful rich girl, a womanizing soldier, and an infatuated ... Read More Rating:  - The wonder and fun starts hereThis is Davies first trilogy, and, if I remember correct, his first novel was the lead-off to this, Tempest-Tost. Before writing novels, however, Davies had written several plays, so his first novel is quite accomplished. The Salterton trilogy is almost misnamed--yes, it does center around the town of Salterton, but the real center of the three books is Solomon Bridgetower. Although he is almost a minor character in the first book, he and his family are front stage in books two and three. Tempest ... Read More Rating: - The Best Beach Book EverAnd I don't actually mean that in a derogatory sense. What I do mean is that the Salterton Trilogy is a compelling romp of a read with enough intelligence and wit to cause one to want to read it in front of the fire come February. BUT...you can put it down and pick it up again weeks later and not feel disconnected. I came rather late to Robertson Davies (university age), even though I grew up in Toronto and even went to Trinity College, U of Toronto, the fictionalized setting for "Rebel Angels"; my ... Read More 
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