{"product_id":"the-deptford-trilogy-fifth-business-the-manticore-world-of-wonders-paperback","title":"The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business; The Manticore; World of Wonders - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobertson Davies\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKelly Link\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eMichael Dirda\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring \u003ci\u003eFifth Business\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Manticore\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWorld of Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e, with a new foreword by Kelly Link \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFifth Business \u003cbr\u003eRamsay 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Manticore\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAround a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels. Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic, \u003ci\u003eTHE DEPTFORD TRILOGY\u003c\/i\u003e provides an exhilarating antidote to a world from where 'the fear and dread and splendour of wonder have been banished'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld of Wonders\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis is the third novel in Davies's major work, \u003ci\u003eThe Deptford Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e. This novel tells the life story of the unfortunate boy introduced in \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Business\u003c\/i\u003e, who was spirited away from his Canadian home by one of the members of a traveling side show, the Wanless World of Wonders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobertson Davies\u003c\/b\u003e (1913-1995) was born and raised in Ontario, and was educated at a variety of schools, including Upper Canada College, Queen's University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He had three successive careers: as an actor with the Old Vic Company in England; as publisher of the Peterborough Examiner; and as university professor and first Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, from which he retired in 1981 with the title of Master Emeritus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe was one of Canada's most distinguished men of letters, with several volumes of plays and collections of essays, speeches, and belles lettres to his credit. As a novelist, he gained worldwide fame for his three trilogies: The Salterton Trilogy, The Deptford Trilogy, and The Cornish Trilogy, and for later novels Murther \u0026amp; Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis career was marked by many honours: He was the first Canadian to be made an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was a Companion of the Order of Canada, and he received honorary degrees from twenty-six American, Canadian, and British universities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 896\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 7.84 x 5.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753679552800,"sku":"9780140147551","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/335682655aed9bb75ce9a3ed0d1c7b00.webp?v=1780025434","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-deptford-trilogy-fifth-business-the-manticore-world-of-wonders-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}