Robertson Davies

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The best place to start is The Salterton Trilogy series, the earliest of Robertson Davies's multi-book series: it opens with Tempest-Tost (1951) and runs to 3 books across 1951–1958, ending with A Mixture of Frailties (1958). Robertson Davies's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Robertson Davies has 31 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1951 and 2015. 11 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being The Cornish Trilogy series with 3 books — and 20 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Robertson Davies's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Salterton Trilogy (1951–1958, 3 books), The Deptford Trilogy (1970–1975, 3 books) and The Cornish Trilogy (1981–1988, 3 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Robertson Davies's 31 books into 4 named series and 20 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Cornish Trilogy (3 books, 1981–1988); The Deptford Trilogy (3 books, 1970–1975); The Salterton Trilogy (3 books, 1951–1958); Toronto Trilogy (2 books, 1991–1994).