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

The Backwoods of Canada

Catharine Parr Traill

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• 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 Incomparable Atuk

Mordecai Richler

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• 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

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

Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• 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

Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• 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

Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories

Ethel Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• 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

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

The Acrobats

Mordecai Richler

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• 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

Son of a Smaller Hero

Mordecai Richler

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• Young Noah Adler, passionate, ruthlessly idealistic, is the prodigal son of Montreal' s Jewish ghetto. Finding tradition in league with self-delusion,... 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

Antoinette de Mirecourt

Rosanna Leprohon

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• 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

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

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

Stephen Leacock

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• Of the many books by Canada's most celebrated humorist, none has received more acclaim than his brilliant, caustic treatment of the glittering rich wh... Lees meer

Swamp Angel

Ethel Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• 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

The Double Hook

Sheila Watson

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• Widely considered one of Canada's first postmodern novels, marking the start of contemporary writing in the country, The Double Hook is now available ... Lees meer

Deep Hollow Creek

Sheila Watson

• Paperback | Engels | New Canadian Library
• When Stella, fresh from her life in the city, arrives to take up her first teaching post in the one-room schoolhouse in a little frontier settlement i... Lees meer