The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies

The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies

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.

Robertson Davies was born in the little town of Thamesville, Ontario, in the year 1913. He attended Queen's University's Upper Canada College and Oxford's Balliol College. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honourary Fellow of Balliol College, a Member of the Order of Ontario, and a Companion of the Order of Canada, as well as the first Canadian member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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ISBN 13	9780140065008
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Titel	The Deptford Trilogy
Autor	Robertson Davies
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1983-09-29
Seitenanzahl	864
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