Maria Chapdelaine, the quintessential novel of the rugged life of early French-Canadian colonists, is based on the author’s experiences as a hired hand in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area. A young...
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Auteur: Hemon, Louis, Blake, W.H., Gnarowski, MichaelSommaire: -
Auteur: Owl, Grey, Gnarowski, Michael, Eayrs, HughSommaire:First published in 1935, Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl's autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist. With his Iroquois wife, Anahereo, Grey Owl...
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Auteur: Lamb, W. Kaye, Gnarowski, MichaelSommaire:B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia. Certainly, the achievements of the Scottish-descended...
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Auteur: Smith, A.J.M., Gnarowski, MichaelSommaire:Arthur James Marshall Smith — prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic — died in 1980. His last book, The Classic Shade: Selected Poems, on which Selected Writings is...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Essays, General fiction -
Auteur: Johnson, Pauline, Gnarowski, MichaelSommaire:Half-Mohawk, half-English author Pauline Johnson astounded Canada with her unique poetry, prose, and presentations. Pauline Johnson was an unusual and unique presence on the literary scene during...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Poetry -
Auteur: Service, Robert W., Gnarowski, MichaelSommaire:The writing of Robert W. Service is mostly known through his poems and ballads. Immortalized by his two iconic ballads, "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Poetry -
Auteur: Lemelin, Roger, Gnarowski, MichaelSommaire:The Town Below changed the face of Québécois literature. The Town Below takes place in St. Joseph Parish of Quebec City’s Saint-Sauveur suburb. Saint-Sauveur is a parochial and provincial place...
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction -
Auteur: McCrae, John, Macphail, Sir Andrew, Gnarowski, MichaelSommaire:“In Flanders Fields,” the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada’s — and the world’s — best known poems of the Great War. It was written...
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Auteur: Smith, A.J.M., Gnarowski, Michael, Roberts, Charles G. D., Polk, JamesSommaire: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....
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Social science -
Auteur: Acland, Peregrine, Ford, Ford Madox, Busby, Brian, Johnson, Pauline, Gnarowski, Michael, Lemelin, Roger, Garner, Hugh, Stuewe, Paul, Slater, Patrick, Hemon, Louis, Blake, W.H., Lewis, Wyndham, Pero, AllanSommaire:Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts. This bundle contains some of the greatest Canadian...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Classic fiction -
Auteur: de la Roche, Mazo, Kirk, Heather, Gnarowski, MichaelSommaire:First published in 1957, Mazo de la Roche’s last autobiography is a vivid look at her life in Ontario, and a parting shot at her critics. Mazo de la Roche was once Canada’s best-known writer,...
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Auteur: Child, Philip, Calhoun, James R., Gnarowski, MichaelSommaire:A new edition of Philip Child’s great Canadian novel of the First World War. A horrifying description of war, specifically embodied in the vain and inglorious futility of the First World War, God...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Historical fiction -
Auteur: Hood, Hugh, Gnarowski, MichaelSommaire:A beautiful new edition of Hugh Hood’s debut story collection. It all started toward the end of the 1930s, when the young Hugh Hood serviced a flourishing Saturday Evening Post delivery route...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories -
Auteur: Smith, A. J. M., Gnarowski, Michael, Roberts, Charles G. D., Polk, JamesSommaire:
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....
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Literary arts -
Auteur: Owl, Grey, Polk, James, Gnarowski, Michael, Eayrs, Hugh, Allan, Julie, Allan, Norman Bethune, Ostrovsky, Susan, Gordon, Sydney, Innis, Mary Quayle, Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma, Kilbourn, William, Stagg, RonaldSommaire:Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductory notes. In this bundle we find five biographical and autobiographical titles that...