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  • Bearing Witness

    Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities

    Series series LIT004080
    As the centenary of the Great War approaches, citizens worldwide are reflecting on the history, trauma, and losses of a war-torn twentieth century. It is in remembering past wars that we are at once confronted with the profound horror and suffering of armed conflict and the increasing elusiveness of peace.The contributors to Bearing Witness do not presume to resolve these troubling questions, but ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Must Write

    Edna Staebler’s Diaries

    Series series Life Writing
    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 ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Feast of Stephen

    “Do you know the characteristic wine of Madeira?... I do not know whether Leacock ever drank Madeira himself—he was very much a Scotch-whisky man—but I enjoy Madeira greatly, and I never drink it without thinking of Leacock, who was sometimes dry, sometimes sweet, but who always leaves upon the tongue a hint of brimstone..."In his witty and illuminating introduction, which takes up the first third ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Earthly Pages

    The Poetry of Don Domanski

    by Don Domanski ...
    Series series Laurier Poetry
    With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, and innovative syntax with delicate phrasings. In subsequent collections, Domanski’s poetry has deepened and expanded, with longer lines and more complex structures that journey into the far ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • The Snake Crosses the Tracks at Midnight

    Series series FPQ
    People grow in dimensions other than those we perceive.The teenage narrator of award-winning author Daniel Karasik’s latest story must deal with the fact that his older sister is now a grown woman, and Lucy, his crush-next-door, has become a mystery, with depths beyond his comprehension. Has he been coasting all this time, school and television his life’s only sources of momentum? ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Apostate Englishman

    Grey Owl the Writer and the Myths

    by Albert Braz ...
    In the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world. He owed his fame largely to his four internationally bestselling books, which he supported with a series of extremely popular illustrated lectures across North America and Great Britain. His reputation was transformed radically, however, after he died in April 1938, and it was revealed that he was not ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Getting Started

    A Memoir of the 1950s

    With letters from Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, and Brian MooreGetting Started is a wonderful memoir, a collection of extraordinary letters, and a brilliant recreation of a time when Canadian writers were set to make their mark in the world for the first time.Writer Brian Moore emigrated from Ireland to Canada in the late 1940s and found work at the Montreal Gazette, where he also found William ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

    Edited by David Staines ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories, and her ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Dictionary of Cape Breton English

    Biff and whiff, baker’s fog and lu’sknikn, pie social and milling frolic – these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton Island, where a puck is a forceful blow and a Cape Breton pork pie is filled with dates, not pork.The first regional dictionary devoted to the island’s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Prizing Literature

    The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture

    When Canadian authors win prestigious literary prizes, from the Governor General's Literary Award to the Man Booker Prize, they are celebrated not only for their achievements, but also for contributing to this country's cultural capital. Discussions about culture, national identity, and citizenship are particularly complicated when the honorees are immigrants, like Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

    Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics. For this edition several chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of fiction, drama and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Voyageur Canadian Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle

    Selected Writings, A.J.M. Smith / The Kindred of the Wild

    Series series Voyageur Classics
    Voyageur Classics is a series of new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of the art of the Canadian essay. Charles G.D. Roberts was a distinguished writer of his time who published more than forty volumes of poetry, romance fiction, and nature writing – making him one of the most popular writers of his time. He ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD