$58.16
- Paperback
832 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2011
Summary
Reissue of this classic trilogy comprising Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders.
At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay, intended victim of the snowball, who, fatefully, ducks; his ‘lifelong friend and enemy’ Percy Boyd Staunton, angered by their recent quarrel, who hurls the snowball; and Paul Dempster, pre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241952627 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024195262X |
| Author: | Robertson Davies |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 832 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 574g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 36mm |
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Critics Review
The kind of writer who makes you want to nag your friends until they read him so that they share the pleasure
The kind of writer who makes you want to nag your friends until they read him so that they share the pleasure * Observer *
Davies’ books will be recognized with the very best works of the twentieth century * New York Times Book Review *
One of the great modern novelists – Malcolm Bradbury
A mature and wise writer – Anthony Burgess
Thick and rich with humour, character and incident * Observer *
About The Author
Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario, in 1913. A novelist, playwright, literary critic and essayist, he received numerous awards for his work. It is as a writer of fiction that Robertson Davies achieved international recognition, with such books as The Salterton Trilogy (Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice and A Mixture of Frailties); The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders); The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone, shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize, and The Lyre of Orpheus); Murther & Walking Spirits, and The Cunning Man. Robertson Davies died in 1995.
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