World of Wonders: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 3
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World of Wonders: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 3
Robertson Davies
Literature
Aug 1, 2018
The final installment of the Deptford Trilogy, World of Wonders, is the province of Mary Dempster’s prematurely born child, Paul, who has been transformed by his life as circus performer, actor, and illusionist into the larger-than-life magician Magnus Eisengrim. Davies’s three novels—each of which, remarkably, stands on its own and can be read independently of the others—echo and amplify one another. Their shared concerns encompass the haunting power of the ghosts of the past, the spiritual emanations of mundane experience, the ancient and collective truths that animate our psychological adventures, and the liberating gift of wonder. Together, these themes provide an elaborate symbolic underpinning to works that never cease to bestow page-turning pleasure.
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