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The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost Leaven of Malice a Mixture of Frailties
by Robertson Davies
from Penguin Books, Inc.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Entertaining and Well Written
  I'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 a small,... more info

• Should Be the Last Davies Book You Read
  I 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 the way that the... more info

• Quaint? I think not
  Robertson 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 schoolteacher.... more info

• The wonder and fun starts here
  This 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-Tost is... more info

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