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  • The Double Hook

    Series series New Canadian Library
    In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestled in the BC Interior. Here, among the hills of Cariboo country, men and women are caught upon the double hook of existence, unaware that the flight from danger and the search for glory are both part of the same journey. In Watson’s compelling novel, cruelty and kindness, betrayal and faith shape a ... Read more

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  • Some Facets of King Lear

    Essays in Prismatic Criticism

    Edited by Rosalie Colie, F.T. Flahiff ...
    Series series Heritage
    The image of the prism, with its multiple refractions, offers some sense of the inexhaustible variety of a work of art. Like a prism, King Lear is attractive; like a prism, it is a multiply shaped thing; like a prism, it is an object of admiration, as well as an instrument of analysis.The essays in this book – forming neither a casebook nor a 'perplex' – were written because their authors wanted ... Read more

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    Series series Anansi Book Club Editions
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