Flood Tide: Illustrated Edition, 1919. Sara W. Bassett (1872-1968) was a prolific American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her educational books include "The Story of Lumber" (1912), "The Story of Wool" (1913), "The Story of Leather" (1915), "The Story of Glass" (1917), "The Story of Sugar" (1917), "The Story of Porcelain" (1919), "Paul and the Printing Press" (1920), "Steve and the Steam Engine" (1921), "Ted and the Telephone" (1922), "Walter and the Wireless" (1923), "Carl and the Cotton Gin...
What has happened to Bret Easton Ellis' ego? Why does Ferran Adria reject the gastronomy it's said he invented? Who was the poet that punched her husband in the face? Why is David Sedaris broken in the wrong way? When is it comforting to eat spleen? In Magical Narcissism, award-winning Canadian journalist and critic Shaun Smith investigates all these questions and many others as he pursues his two great loves: books and food. In dozens of pieces, Smith tackles works by such luminaries as Steve...
The Ivory Thought (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers)
If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918-2000). Numerous eminent scholars and writers have attested to this pre-eminent status. George Bowering described him as 'the world's most Canadian poet' (1970), while Sam Solecki titled his book-length study of Purdy, "The Last Canadian Poet (1999)". In "The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy", a group of seventeen scholars, critics, writers, and educators appraise and reappraise Purdy's contribution to English literatur...
A rich collection drawn from the nearly thirty books of Mordecai Richler, featuring his writings on Montreal, New York, and London.
L'etude de Gilles Dorion aborde chacune des facettes de l'oeuvre remarquable de Roch Carrier et en fait voir les richesses.
Modern girls can have morals too. That is the message written into the character of Lynn Severn, daughter of a small-town minister. Lynn is puzzled by the changes that have come between her and her childhood playmate, Mark Carter, as they grow older in this coming-of-age romance.
Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (Canadian Literature Collection)
by Laurie Kruk
Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature going to Alice Munro, the "master of the contemporary short story," this art form is receiving the recognition that has been its due and-as this book demonstrates-Canadian writers hav...
Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry. This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, the creative process that developed from a rather pessimistic and misanthropic vision of the world a...
Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman
by Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman
Over a period of forty years, from 1947 to 1986, Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman wrote to each other constantly. The topics they wrote about were as wide-ranging as their interests and experiences, and their correspondence encompassed many of the varied events of their lives. Laurence's letters - of which far more are extant than Wisman's - reveal much about the impact of her years in Africa, motherhood, her anxieties and insecurities, and her developement as a writer. Wiseman, whose literar...
Winnifred Eaton, better known under her Japanese pseudonym, Onoto Watanna, was of English and Chinese heritage, but born and raised in Canada. She published over a dozen novels and hundreds of short stories, magazine articles, and screenplays during the first half of the twentieth century. Her romances featuring Japanese and Eurasian heroines sold widely. However, by the time of her death in 1954, most of her books were out of print. Winnifred (unlike her sister, the better-known writer Edith Ea...
Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the age of sixteen and continued to write for over eighty years. Must Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries draws from these diaries selections that map Staebler's construction of herself as a writer and documents her frustrations and strugg...