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The Manticore

By Robertson Davies
Foreword by Kelly Link
Introduction by Michael Dirda

By Robertson Davies
Foreword by Kelly Link
Introduction by Michael Dirda

By Robertson Davies
Foreword by Kelly Link
Introduction by Michael Dirda

By Robertson Davies
Foreword by Kelly Link
Introduction by Michael Dirda

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Part of Deptford Trilogy

Part of Deptford Trilogy

Paperback $17.00

Feb 28, 2006 | ISBN 9780143039136

Ebook $12.99

Feb 28, 2006 | ISBN 9780525505518

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    About The Manticore

    The second book in Robertson Davies’s acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link

    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 Manticore—the second book in the series after Fifth Business—follows David Staunton, a man pleased with his success but haunted by his relationship with his larger-than-life father. As he seeks help through therapy, he encounters a wonderful cast of characters who help connect him to his past and the death of his father.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About The Manticore

    The second book in Robertson Davies’s acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link

    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 Manticore—the second book in the series after Fifth Business—follows David Staunton, a man pleased with his success but haunted by his relationship with his larger-than-life father. As he seeks help through therapy, he encounters a wonderful cast of characters who help connect him to his past and the death of his father.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    About Robertson Davies

    Robertson Davies was born and raised in Ontario and was educated at a variety of schools, Upper Canada College, Queen’s University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He had three successive careers: first as an actor with the Old Vic Company in… More about Robertson Davies

    About Robertson Davies

    Robertson Davies was born and raised in Ontario and was educated at a variety of schools, Upper Canada College, Queen’s University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He had three successive careers: first as an actor with the Old Vic Company in… More about Robertson Davies

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Feb 28, 2006 | 304 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143039136

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Feb 28, 2006 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780525505518
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    Praise

    “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.”
    —Kelly Link
     
    “The Deptford Trilogy boldly commingles the extraordinary and the everyday, at times attaining what Davies once called, in talking about melodrama, ‘the compelling immediacy of a dream.’”
    —Michael Dirda

    “Robertson Davies is one of the great modern novelists.”
    —Malcolm Bradbury, The Sunday Times (London)

    “Robertson Davies is a novelist whose books are thick and rich with humor, character and incident. They are plotted with skill and much flamboyance.”
    —The Observer (London)

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