The Deptford Trilogy Series by Robertson Davies

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  • The Deptford Trilogy (The Deptford Trilogy #1–3)
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    The Deptford Trilogy (The Deptford Trilogy #1–3)

    Robertson Davies

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings · published 1975

    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... more

  • Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy #1)
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    Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy #1)

    Robertson Davies

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings · published 1970

    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... more

  • The Manticore (The Deptford Trilogy #2)
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    The Manticore (The Deptford Trilogy #2)

    Robertson Davies

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings · published 1972

    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 (The Deptford Trilogy #3)
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    World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy #3)

    Robertson Davies

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings · published 1975

    Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies’s acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. World of Wonders—the third book in the series after The Manticore—follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim—the most illustrious magician of his age—who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the Wanless World of Wonders... more

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