Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)
 

Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)

by Robertson Davies

Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His... (read more)

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Reojames
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2008 is my "Year of Classics", and I asked a bunch of you what your favorite classic books were. Someone told me to read the Deptford Trilogy, and this is the first one in that series.
I was amazed at how this book absorbed me and vice/versa.
This book takes us through the life of Dunstan Ramsay, from his childhood in Deptford to his death as a professor at a boys school.
This book is packed with wisdom, if the reader takes the time to look for it. And it is a very fun...

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