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Showing posts with label Censorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Censorship. Show all posts
16 June 2025

A Man Reaps What He Sows

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The Homesteaders: A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J.C. Stead Toronto: Musson , 1916 347 pages The first edition is bound in boards readi...
04 June 2024

Three Weeks a Lady

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Three Weeks Elinor Glyn New York: Macaulay, [c. 1924] 245 pages I misread "IMMORTAL ROMANCE" as "IMMORAL ROMANCE," which...
26 February 2020

Reading Gérard Bessette on His Hundredth

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Not for Every Eye [ Le libraire ] Gérard Bessette [trans. Glen Shortliffe]  Toronto: Macmillan, 1962 98 pages Yesterday marked the...
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02 July 2019

Getting to Know the Woman Who Did

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The Woman Who Did Grant Allen Boston: Roberts Bros, 1895 223 pages The Woman Who Did was the first Grant Allen novel I ever bought...
05 March 2018

The Pyx Censored!

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I spent a couple of hours this past weekend researching John Buell's second novel, Four Days , first published fifty-five years ago ...
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01 March 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Selected Salacious Filth Found in a Toronto Controller's Dresser Drawer

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David A. Balfour 1889 - 1956 RIP The joke that is Rob Ford isn't funny anymore, right? We all know where he's heading, the ...
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28 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Condemned by Coren

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How Do You Spell Abducted? Cherylyn Stacey Red Deer, AB: Red Deer College Press, 1996 Newspaper columnists don't always write th...
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27 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Ben Hecht on Front Page …of The Ottawa Citizen

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The Ottawa Citizen , 31 October 1947
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26 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Eight Men Speak

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Freedom to Read Week Hump Day. Have you bought your banned book yet? If not, may I suggest Eight Men Speak ? Written in 1933, reissued j...
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