Sefton and his sister Clemence are dispatched to separate boarding schools. Their father's second marriage, their mother's economies, provide perfect opportunities for mockery, and home becomes a source of shame. More wretched is their mother's...
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World of Wonders, the concluding novel in Robertson Davies' celebrated Deptford Trilogy, is available as an e-book for the first time.
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