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Showing posts with label George H. Doran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George H. Doran. Show all posts
10 January 2024

O Lucky Man!

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You Never Know Your Luck: Being the Story of a    Matrimonial Deserter Gilbert Parker Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1914 328 pages The dust ...
18 September 2023

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Self-Improvement

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Pagan Love John Murray Gibbon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922 310 pages The start of this novel sees a suicide thwarted. Walter Olip...
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03 January 2023

A Forgotten Mystery; a Shattered Dream

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The Twenty-First Burr Victor Lauriston Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922 292 pages Victor Lauriston was born William Edward Park on 16...
14 November 2018

The Great Canadian Post-Great War Novel?

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The Empty Sack Basil King New York: Harper, 1921 446 pages "We're all different. Life as we used to live it begins to seem...
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16 September 2018

The Reverend Cody Cover Cavalcade

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On this sunny Sunday, the third post concerning Reverend H.A. Cody this month, all part of an effort to atone for ignoring the man these...
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04 September 2018

Familiar to Hundreds (including Mike Myers?)

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Doors of the Night Frank L. Packard Toronto: Copp Clark, 1922 297 pages The hero of this novel is a young man named Billy Kane. Rai...
04 November 2016

Testing Jimmie Dale's Patience (and mine)

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Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue Frank L. Packard Toronto: Copp, Clark, 1922 This third Gray Seal book begins where the second,  T...
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08 August 2016

The Further Frustrations of Jimmie Dale

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The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale Frank L. Packard New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931 "The Gray Seal is dead." So ...