Life in the Clearings versus the Bush (New Canadian Library) (New Canadian Library S.)
by Susanna Moodie
In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times. Invaluable as social history and as a candid self-portrait, Life in the Clearings versus the Bush chronicles, with wit and wisdom, Canadian society in the mid-19th century. The NCL edition is an unabridged repr...
Collier Magique (Le) (7-8) (Rat de Bibliothique: Rouge, #4)
by Leo-James Levesque
Short Stories by Thomas Murtha (Canadian Short Story Library)
by William Murtha and Thomas Murtha
This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and raised in Ontario. Murtha was one of the notable experimental writers of the 1920s, but his work has been largely ignored by literary historians. Thomas Murtha was a classmate and colleague of other notable Canadians including former prime minister Paul Martin, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister. Callaghan, Murtha, and Knister greatly influenced each others' work. Comple...
Guest editor Rob Taylor, author of the widely acclaimed collection The News, brings a passionate ear for rhythm, an eye for narrative compression, an appetite for vital subject matter, and an affinity for warmth and wit to his selections for Best Canadian Poetry 2019. The fifty ruggedly independent poems gathered here tackle themes of emergence, defiance, ferocious anger, gratitude, and survival. They are alive with acoustic energy, precise in their language, and moving in their use of the perso...
The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion
by Sir Joseph Pope
Un Ogre Trop Gourmand (Mini Rat de Bibliotheque, #11)
by Florence Ducatteau