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Showing posts with label Romans à clef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romans à clef. Show all posts
17 April 2024

Morley Callaghan's Red Ryan Rocket

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More Joy in Heaven Morley Callaghan New York: Random House, 1937 278 page s It's been decades since Intro to CanLit II, my second introd...
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21 November 2022

A Romance of Toronto: CanLit Most Verbose

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A Romance of Toronto (Founded on Fact) Mrs Annie G. Savigny Toronto: William Briggs, 1888 229 pages The first chapter, 'Toronto a Fair M...
14 September 2022

Born Again Infidel

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The Right of Way Gilbert Parker New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [ c. 1907] 419 pages I don't like it when a novel opens with a line of d...
13 June 2022

An Old Novel of Misspent Youth

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Blaze of Noon Jeann Beattie Toronto: Ryserson, 1950 353 pages The sixth winner of Ryerson's in-house All-Canada Fiction Award , the publ...
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12 November 2020

What to Do? What to Do?

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The New Front Line Hubert Evans Toronto: Macmillan, 1927 291 pages Hugh Henderson has returned from the Great War, but not to his Ontario ho...
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06 July 2020

A Queer Thing, Nationalism

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What Fools Men Are! Sinclair Murray [Alan Sullivan] London: Sampson Low, Marston, [1933] 316 pages It's possible that What Fo...
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14 April 2020

A Foggy Night in Hogtown

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Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse [Arthur Herbert Moorhouse] Toronto: Musson, 1920 342 pages Before we get into the action, t...
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16 October 2019

A Dog's Life and Then Some

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Beautiful Joe: The Autobiography of a Dog      [New and Revised Edition] Marshall Saunders Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, n.d. 2...
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