{"product_id":"the-deptford-trilogy-fifth-business-the-manticore-world-of-wonders-9780140147551","title":"The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business; The Manticore; World of Wonders","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robertson Davies\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\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","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45356188336279,"sku":"9780140147551","price":1590.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780140147551.webp?v=1767671682","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-deptford-trilogy-fifth-business-the-manticore-world-of-wonders-9780140147551","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}