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  • The Deptford Trilogy, Book 3
  • Written by: Robertson Davies
  • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
  • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (45 ratings)

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World of Wonders

Written by: Robertson Davies
Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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Publisher's Summary

Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as a "modern classic", Robertson Davies' acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven.

World of Wonders, the third book in the series after The Manticore, follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim - the most illustrious magician of his age - who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the Wanless World of Wonders. After honing his skills and becoming better known, Magnus unfurls his life's courageous and adventurous tale in this third and final volume of a spectacular, soaring work.

©1975 Robertson Davies (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

What the critics say

"One of the splendid literary enterprises of this decade." ( Newsweek)
"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)

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excellent

such a great book! very well read. I will definitely listen to the whole series

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