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The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business; The Manticore; World of Wonders de Robertson Davies

The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business; The Manticore; World of Wonders

Autor Robertson Davies
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 1990 – vârsta de la 18 ani
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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ISBN-13: 9780140147551
ISBN-10: 0140147551
Pagini: 832
Dimensiuni: 129 x 199 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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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At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay; his 'lifelong friend and enemy' Percy Boyd Staunton; and, Paul Dempster prematurely born when his pregnant mother is struck by Percy's icy missile.