num_pages: 825
description: 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 BusinessRamsay 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 ManticoreAround 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 WondersThis 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.
language: English
title: The Deptford Trilogy
titlecomplete: The Deptford Trilogy
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Mystery, Canadian Literature, Canada, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 8056
series: The Deptford Trilogy
publisher: Penguin Books