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Showing posts with label Voyageur Classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voyageur Classics. Show all posts
02 January 2025

The Nine Best Canadian Novels of the 1920s

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In my twenties, the 'twenties – by which I mean the 1920s – seemed the height of art, film, decadence, glamour, and romance. I'm not...
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11 December 2023

Eight Gifts to Last

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In past years I've noted gifts and donations to the Dusty Bookcase at the end of the annual list of Ten Best Book Buys. An exception is ...
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01 October 2021

Dustiest Bookcase: S is for Slater (not Mitchell)

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Water-Drinker Patrick Slater [John Mitch...
26 January 2016

Remembering Ted Allan on His Hundredth

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Today marks the centenary of Ted Allan’s birth. Though our lives overlapped by more than three decades, the only time I actually laid ey...
22 July 2015

Hugh Garner: Article Lost, Article Found

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962 Toronto: Ryerson, 1968 Markhan, ON: PaperJacks, 1983 Toronto: Dundurn, 2011 A Bo...
09 March 2015

Dirty Old Town

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The Town Below [Au pied de la pente douce] Roger Lemelin [trans. Samuel Putnam] New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948 We open on th...
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12 December 2014

The Christmas Offering of Books – 1914 and 2014

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The image is small, but the selection is huge. This full page advert from the 2 December 1914 Globe & Mail gives good idea of the b...