My Remarkable Uncle

Stephen Leacock

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• This celebrated collection of sketches sparkles with Stephen Leacock's humour and shines with the warmth of his wit. The comical E.P., star of the tit... Lees meer

Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

Susanna Moodie

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• In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush , Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontar... Lees meer

Turvey

Earle Birney

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• Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey is nobody's idea of a capable recruit. Shifted from regimental pillar to post, Turvey tries and fails at every odd jo... Lees meer

The Incomparable Atuk

Mordecai Richler

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• Transplanted to Toronto from his native Baffin Island, Atuk the poet is an unlikely overnight success. Eagerly adapting to a society steeped in preten... Lees meer

The Equations of Love

Ethel Wilson

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• In the two novellas that make up The Equations of Love , Ethel Wilson describes ordinary people in perilous circumstances with extraordinary insight a... Lees meer

The Backwoods of Canada

Catharine Parr Traill

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• The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity in this portrayal of pioneer life by Catharine Parr Traill... Lees meer

The Clockmaker

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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• Sam Slick of Slickville, Connecticut, is a Yankee clock-peddler who accompanies a visiting English gentleman on an unforgettable tour of early ninetee... Lees meer

Wild Animals I Have Known

Ernest Thompson Seton

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• An immediate success upon its first publication in 1898, Wild Animals I Have Known gave the animal story new credibility and power as a literary genre... Lees meer

The Stone Angel

Margaret Laurence

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• Vivid, evocative, moving, The Stone Angel celebrates the triumph of the spirit, and reveals Margaret Laurence at the height of her powers as a writer ... Lees meer

Ancient Lineage and Other Stories

Morley Callaghan

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• A new selection of stories by Canada's Hemingway, with an afterword by Pulitzer Prize--winner William Kennedy. Morley Callaghan's literary circle incl... Lees meer

Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War

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• This is the only anthology to present a full history of Canadian poetry -- from the early 1600s through the expansiveness of poetic activity during th... Lees meer

Mad Shadows

Marie-Claire Blais

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• A harrowing pathology of the soul, Mad Shadows centres on a family group: Patrice, the beautiful and narcissistic son; his ugly and malicious sister, ... Lees meer

Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories

Ethel Wilson

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• The eighteen pieces collected in Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories bring together the many and subtle voices of Ethel Wilson, demonstrating her extraor... Lees meer

Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960

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• The best in four decades of exceptional Canadian poetry, now in a limited hardcover edition. The poets in this anthology, all of whom matured creative... Lees meer

Son of a Smaller Hero

Mordecai Richler

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• Young Noah Adler, passionate, ruthlessly idealistic, is the prodigal son of Montreal' s Jewish ghetto. Finding tradition in league with self-delusion,... Lees meer

The Acrobats

Mordecai Richler

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• Living in a rat-infested hotel in Franco's post-war Spain, André Bennett, a Canadian painter, loves Toni, his girl friend, who wants him to return hom... Lees meer

The Alley Cat

Yves Beauchemin

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• First published in Quebec in 1981, Beauchemin's highly acclaimed comic masterpiece of storytelling follows in the tradition of the great novels of the... Lees meer

Hetty Dorval

Ethel Wilson

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• Seeking refuge from her mysterious past, the beautiful Mrs. Dorval arrives in a small British Columbia town at the confluence of the Fraser and Thomps... Lees meer

White Narcissus

Raymond Knister

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• The Ontario farmland described with arresting clarity in White Narcissus is, despite its beauty and abundance, "a place of choked vistas" where bitter... Lees meer

Antoinette de Mirecourt

Rosanna Leprohon

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• To the intense distress of her family, Antoinette de Mirecourt falls in love with an English officer, and the love affair becomes an inescapable mirro... Lees meer

The Man from Glengarry

Ralph Connor

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• Ranald Macdonald's roots are in the forest of Ontario's easternmost county and his character was forged in the small Presbyterian church near his home... Lees meer

Woodsmen of the West

Martin Allerdale Grainger

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• When Woodsmen of the West first appeared in 1908, most readers could not relate to its rendering of the rough edges of logging-camp life. M. Allerdale... Lees meer

My Financial Career and Other Follies

Stephen Leacock

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• This original NCL collection brings together Leacock's comic masterpieces, the many varieties of his remarkable humour. In one story a young man is se... Lees meer

Swamp Angel

Ethel Wilson

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• Walking out on a demoralizing second marriage, Maggie Lloyd leaves Vancouver to work at a fishing lodge in the interior of British Columbia. But the s... Lees meer