![]() ![]() ![]() Far from being “a typical old schoolmaster doddering Dunstan intends to set the record straight about his life and accomplishments. Plot Summaryįifth Business is framed as a letter from history teacher Dunstan Ramsey to his former headmaster at Colborne College. The second of them, Leaven of Malice, won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. His first books, which became known as the Salterton Trilogy - Tempest-Tost (1951), Leaven of Malice (1954) and A Mixture of Frailties (1958) - explored the cultural life of Canada and established Davies as a notable Canadian writer. The gap between the public faces and private lives of the small-town residents later formed theīasis for the fictional setting of Deptford, where the events of Fifth Business begin.ĭavies worked variously as an actor, literary editor, newspaper editor and university schoolmaster before and during his time as a novelist. Local newspaper, and would relate the stories of the town’s residents to his son. Robertson Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario, on 28 August 1913. ![]()
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