{"product_id":"the-deptford-trilogy-isbn-9780140147551","title":"The Deptford Trilogy","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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifth Business\u003c\/b\u003e \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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“If you are the kind of reader who looks for traces of the marvelous and the unexpected in narrative as well as daily life, then soon you will, like me, treasure these novels.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kelly Link\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Deptford Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e boldly commingles the extraordinary and the everyday, at times attaining what Davies once called, in talking about melodrama, ‘the compelling immediacy of a dream.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Dirda\u003c\/b\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. \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","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300821651685,"sku":"NP9780140147551","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140147551.jpg?v=1767738994","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-deptford-trilogy-isbn-9780140147551","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}