Hailed by the **Washington Post Book World** as "a modern classic," Robertson Daviesβs acclaimed **Deptford Trilogy** is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. **World of Wonders** βthe third book in the series after **The Manticore
The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders
β Scribed by Robertson Davies
- Book ID
- 111096704
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 583 KB
- Series
- Deptford
- Edition
- Combined volume
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780771027789
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β¦ Synopsis
**Gathering Fifth Business , The Manticore , and World of Wonders together, The Deptford Trilogy has been hailed as a modern classic and is available as an eBook for the first time. **
Woven around a mysterious death, the novels trace the rich and varied, and fatefully linked, lives of Dunstan Ramsay, David Staunton, and Magnus Eisengrim. Davies has created a beguiling, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels, luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history, and magic and providing an exhilarating antidote to a world from where "the fear and dread and splendor of wonder have been banished."
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