{"product_id":"the-deptford-trilogy-robertson-davies-9780140147551","title":"The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business; The Manticore; World of Wonders","description":"\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robertson Davies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0140147551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140147551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.84h x 5.08w x 1.50d","brand":"Robertson Davies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048614949119,"sku":"9780140147551","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d83ed8ac-d64a-4fde-8896-eb9d07458c1c.jpg?v=1684996801","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-deptford-trilogy-robertson-davies-9780140147551","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}