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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. The Manticoreâthe second book in the series after Fifth Businessâfollows David Staunton, a man …

World of Wonders is the third novel in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy. First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1975, this novel focuses on the life-story of the fictional conjuror Magnus Eisengrim.

Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and erudite scholars of the University of St. John and the Holy Ghost, this dazzling trilogy of novels lures the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy that could only be the invention of Canada's grand man of letters.

Book annotation not available for this title.Title: The Salterton Trilogy Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: Penguin Group USA Publication Date: 1991/12/01 Number of Pages: 808 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: BL 99773565

“A delight, a novel that travels 70 years of history on its own swift feet, a book of love and wisdom, loss and irony”—The Boston Sunday Globe When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high alter on Good Friday, Dr. Jonathan Hullah – whose holistic work has earned him the label “Cunning Man” (for the wizard of folk …

Catching his wife with his one-time colleague, Gil Gilmartin is murdered by the latter and lingers on as a ghost who must spend his afterlife sitting next to his killer at an otherworldly film festival. Reprint.

For Your Eye Alone, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000, is a collection of letters written by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. Editor Judith Skelton Grant provides a selection of letters written by Davies from the period starting in 1976 until 1995, the year of Davies' death. The letters touch on various …