The Dusty Bookcase

Une deuxième chanson pour la fête de la St-Jean. Composed by George-Étienne Cartier, "Avant tout je suis canadien" follows his bet...

The Scarecrows of Saint-Emmanuel [L'épouvantail] André Major [Sheila Fischman, trans.] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977 ...

This blog's descriptor confines, but today I ignore all to draw attention to three paragraphs written by John Gale, an Englishman with n...

Orlando Figes made the news a couple of months ago when the Times revealed that he'd posted a slew of savage pseudonymous reviews ...

The Wars shines brightly, even as Timothy Findley's star falls. A Penguin Modern Classic, it's assigned to reluctant high school and...

Beginning with the above, London publisher Grant Richards' 1897 first edition of An African Millionaire , six handsome Grant Allen books...

A correspondent wonders why I gave Tutis Classics a pass in the last post . The reason is simple: the greatest offence done to Grant Allen...