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Details

Additional authors

1. Derry, Ramsay
2. Surridge, Jennifer

Description

1. xviii, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had a remarkable literary career that extended through the entire second half of the twentieth century. After university in Canada and at Oxford, Davies had begun working in British theatre, but with the outbreak of war in 1939 he returned to Canada where he swiftly established himself as an outstanding editor, columnist and literary critic, and as an increasingly prominent playwright and novelist. Tall, ample, and bearded, with a richly developed theatrical voice, he had an imposing and distinctive appearance that made him seem older than he was. His rather magisterial presence hid well the mixture of ambition, anxieties, and insecurities, and often conflicting perceptions and emotions that all bubbled furiously within and that are recorded in the diaries. Chronicling his time as editor of the Peterborough Examiner, his role as the founding master of Massey College, and most of all his life as a writer, from the failure of a play in New York to the beginnings of an idea for a novel that would become Fifth Business, A Celtic Temperament is entertaining and illuminating and a major addition to Davies's body of work."--

Uniform title

1. Diaries. Selections

Alternative title

1. Diaries.
2. Robertson Davies as diarist

Subject

1. Authors, Canadian
2. Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995
3. Diaries
4. Authors, Canadian > 20th century > Diaries
5. 1900 - 1999
6. Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995 > Journal intime
7. Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995 > Diaries
8. Écrivains canadiens-anglais > 20e siècle > Journaux intimes
9. Authors, Canadian (English) > 20th century > Diaries

Genre/Form

1. Diaries.

Call number

1. JFE 16-6651

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional formats (note)

1. Issued also in electronic format.

Language (note)

1. Text in English.

Author

1. Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995.

Title

1. A Celtic temperament : Robertson Davies as diarist / edited by Jennifer Surridge and Ramsay Derry.

Publisher

1. [Toronto, Ont.] : McClelland & Stewart, [2015]

Copyright date

1. ©2015

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional formats

1. Issued also in electronic format.

Language

1. Text in English.

Chronological term

1. 1900 - 1999

Added author

1. Derry, Ramsay, editor.
2. Surridge, Jennifer, editor.

Other form:

1. Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995. Diaries. Selections Celtic temperament. (CaOONL)20159043743

ISBN

1. 9780771027642 (bound)
2. 0771027648 (bound)
3. 9780771027659 (html)
4. 0771027656 (html)

Research call number

1. JFE 16-6651