Fifth business
By Robertson Davies
- Publication Year (This Edition): 1977
- Year of First Publication: 1970
- Publication Type: Book
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9780140043877
- Library: Pusthakalaya · Washington, D. C.
- Accession: 1989-06-30-02
- Call number: PZ4 .D258F15
- Dewey (DDC): 813.54
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Place of Publication: [New York]
- Acquisition Date: 1989-06-30
- Original Price: 4.95 USD
- Keywords: History teachers -- Fiction, World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Fiction, Christian hagiography -- Viction, School principals -- Fiction, Bachelors -- Fiction, Guilt -- Fiction, Canada -- Fiction
It is the first installment of the Deptford Trilogy and is a story of the life of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay. It is Davies' best-known novel, and considered his finest.