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Penguin Modern Classics Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) by Robertson Davies is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of car
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- Author
- Robertson Davies
- Publisher
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780143051381
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Literary
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (289 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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