The Voyageur Canadian Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle
Title | The Voyageur Canadian Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle PDF eBook |
Author | A.J.M. Smith |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2014-03-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1459729056 |
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 pioneered the animal story in which he went beyond surface elements of nature and endowed his animal "characters" with qualities of feeling and intelligence that brought them closer to their human cousins. Roberts’ career as a writer transcended his Canadian roots and he was internationally known and popular in America and England. 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 based, stands as his final intention in the world of literature. To this long out of print book the editor has added original material by Smith in which he defined and advanced modernism in Canadian writing. Includes Selected Writings, A.J.M. Smith The Kindred of the Wild
The Voyageur Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle Selected Writings, A. J. M. Smith
Title | The Voyageur Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle Selected Writings, A. J. M. Smith PDF eBook |
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Release | 2014 |
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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 40 volumes of poetry, romance fiction and nature writing—making him one of the most popular writers of his time. He pioneered the animal story in which he went beyond surface elements of nature and endowed his animal "characters" with qualities of feeling and intelligence that brought them closer to their human cousins. Roberts' career as a writer transcended his Canadian roots and he was internationally known and popular in America and England. 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 based, stands as his final intention in the world of literature. To this long out of print book the editor has added original material by Smith in which he defined and advanced modernism in Canadian writing. Includes:Selected Writings, A.J.M. SmithThe Kindred of the Wild.
The Voyageur Canadian Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle Selected Writings, A.J.M. Smith
Title | The Voyageur Canadian Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle Selected Writings, A.J.M. Smith PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
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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 pioneered the animal story in which he went beyond surface elements of nature and endowed his animal "characters" with qualities of feeling and intelligence that brought them closer to their human cousins. Roberts’ career as a writer transcended his Canadian roots and he was internationally known and popular in America and England. 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 based, stands as his final intention in the world of literature. To this long out of print book the editor has added original material by Smith in which he defined and advanced modernism in Canadian writing. Includes Selected Writings, A.J.M. Smith The Kindred of the Wild.
The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle
Title | The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle PDF eBook |
Author | Peregrine Acland |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 1782 |
Release | 2014-06-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1459729064 |
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 fiction, including influential literature from Quebec (Maria Chapdelaine, The Town Below), a collection of the best of the legendary Pauline Johnson, Peregrine Acland’s gripping Great War novel All Else is Folly, a classic tale of Irish immigration (The Yellow Briar), and great novels from the renowned Hugh Garner (The Storm Below) and Wyndham Lewis (Self Condemned). Any reader with an interest not only in Canadian literature, but in great fiction in general, will find this collection of great works an essential addition to their collection. Includes All Else Is Folly Pauline Johnson The Town Below Self Condemned Storm Below The Yellow Briar Maria Chapdelaine
Selected Writings
Title | Selected Writings PDF eBook |
Author | A.J.M. Smith |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2006-09-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1550029363 |
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 based, stands as his final intention in the world of literature.To this long out of print book the editor has added original material by Smith in which he defined and advanced modernism in Canadian writing. This edition also includes annotation, anextended introduction, and a bibliography.
The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808
Title | The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808 PDF eBook |
Author | W. Kaye Lamb |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2007-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 155002924X |
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 United Empire Loyalist adventurer were impressive. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Fraser undertook the third major expedition (after Alexander Mackenzie’s and Lewis and Clark’s) across North America, culminating in his famous journey down the river in British Columbia that now bears his name. Employed by the Montreal-based North West Company, Fraser was responsible for building many of British Columbia’s first trading posts. His exploratory efforts helped lead to Canada’s boundary later being declared at the 49th parallel. In this new volume, librarian and archivist W. Kaye Lamb provides a detailed introduction as well as illuminating annotations to Fraser’s journals, which were originally published by Macmillan of Canada in 1960.
New Provinces
Title | New Provinces PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Lochhead |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1976-12-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487597630 |
When New Provinces first appeared in 1936, it represented four years of planning, argument, and compromise, and an additional two and a half years of correspondence and editorial preparation. This prolonged effort was brought to a successful end with the publication of a slim collection of verse, the work of six writers, Robert Finch, Leo Kennedy, A.M. Klein, E.J. Pratt, F.R. Scott, and A.J.M. Smith. At the time it was published it received little critical attention and had even less popular appeal; after nearly a year the book had sold only 82 copies, 10 of them to one of the contributors. Only E.K. Brown, writing for University of Toronto Quarterly in 1937, seemed to realize that New Provinces 'marked the emergence ... of a group of poets who may well have a vivifying effect on Canadian poetry.' Since that time this small volume has been recognized as a monument in Canadian literature, a singular event in a literary process which stemmed from the origins of Canadian modernism and its beginnings in Montreal, marking the first collective effort to introduce poets who came to represent the new establishment. Michael Gnarowski's introduction tells the fascinating story of the genesis of the idea for the book and the difficulties that were encountered.