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Deptford Trilogy Fifth Business The Manticore World of Wonders

by Robertson Davies
Deptford Trilogy Fifth Business The Manticore World of Wonders

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ISBN10: 0140147551
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The complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, with a new foreword by Kelly Link

Fifth Business
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.

The Manticore
Around a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels. Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic, THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY provides an exhilarating antidote to a world from where 'the fear and dread and splendour of wonder have been banished'.

World of Wonders
This is the third novel in Davies's major work, The Deptford Trilogy. This novel tells the life story of the unfortunate boy introduced in The Fifth Business, who was spirited away from his Canadian home by one of the members of a traveling side show, the Wanless World of Wonders.


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Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had three successive careers during the time he became an internationally acclaimed Author - actor, publisher, and, finally, professor at the University of Toronto. The author of twelve novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Fifth business -- The manticore -- World of wonders.

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canadian wordsmith tells truly canadian tale multiples of excellent stories rolled into one three excellent books rolled into one lives of many people observed by one now being read again ... for the third time this time to my wife ... she likes it ... and she is a yankee ...

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ISBN:
9780140147551
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
10/01/1990
Publisher:
PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE
Series info:
Deptford Trilogy
Pages:
896
Height:
1.50IN
Width:
5.08IN
Thickness:
1.50
Age Range:
18 and up
Grade Range:
13 and up
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1996
Series Volume:
v. 96
UPC Code:
2800140147553
Author:
Robertson Davies
Author:
Robertson Davies
Oth:
Kelly Link
Intro:
Michael Dirda
Author:
Robertson Davies Davies
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Didactic fiction, Canadian
Subject:
Psychological fiction, Canadian

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