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Showing posts with label New Canadian Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Canadian Library. Show all posts
12 November 2019

Three Little Women and One Big Spoiler

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Frederick Niven wrote  The Flying Years . I learned this as a teenager through a list of New Canadian Library titles printed in a copy o...
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02 July 2018

Hugh MacLennan, My Favourite Martian

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Each Man's Son Hugh MacLennan Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962 Cover by Frank Newfeld Related posts: Pierre Berton a...
11 December 2017

The Year's Best Books in Review – A.D. 2017; Featuring Three Books Deserving Resurrection

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I finished reading my last book of the year yesterday afternoon; there is no way the I'll reach the end of the next before January. ...
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30 November 2017

RIP NCL: A Multinational Reacts to a Eulogy

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It has been a month since the publication of "For All Its Faults," my essay on the death of the New Canadian Library ( CNQ  10...
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30 October 2017

CNQ at 100

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It doesn't seem right to describe the new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries as special – every issue is special – but this on...
14 May 2017

A Novel My Mother Read

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Glengarry School Days:      A Story of the Early Days in Glengarry Ralph Connor [pseud. Rev. Charles W. Gordon] Toronto: Westminster,...
10 February 2017

The Beautiful, Very Desirable Stephen Leacock (and the bloody severed head of Orpheus)

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A few words as following Monday's post on Stephen Leacock's Behind the Beyond. Behind the Beyond  was dropped by New Canadian ...
06 February 2017

Professor Leacock Sets the Stage

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Behind the Beyond      and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Stephen Leacock Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1913 Early Leacock ...