David Staines
David Staines, professor of English at the University of Ottawa is general editor of McClelland & Stewart's New Canadian Library. This original NCL collection brings together Leacock's comic masterpieces, the many varieties of his remarkable ... [... more]
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (New Canadian Library)
 It Soothes the Soul: There is at least one author who may remind you of Stephen Leacock, namely Garrison Keillor of Lake Wobegon fame, but Leacock should be recognized as the ultimate master of quaint, bucolic humor. Leacock, who died in 1944, became [... more]
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Life in the Clearings versus the Bush (New Canadian Library)
Author: Susanna Moodie Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9780771099762 ISBN: 0771099762 Number Of Pages: 344 Publication Date: 1989-06-01 Release Date: 1989-06-01 [... more]
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White Narcissus (New Canadian Library)
Author: Raymond Knister Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780771099632 ISBN: 0771099630 Number Of Pages: 153 Publication Date: 1990-03-01 Release Date: 1990-03-01 [... more]
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Swamp Angel (New Canadian Library)
Flyfishing as Life: One of the most remarkable books I have ever read. It was recommended to me as a transplanted Maritimer, a fly fisher and fly tier, all of which the heroine also is. For a book of its era it is amazingly modern in many of its [... more]
$8.95
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The History of Emily Montague (New Canadian Library)
Eighteenth Century Canadian Tourism: The History of Emily Monatgue is not the best novel written in the Eighteenth Century. It's not the worst, either. The story line is what you would expect; girl meets boy, they fall in love, but a combination of [... more]
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Emily's Quest (New Canadian Library)
Tedius and overlong...: I really enjoyed the first two "Emily" books by LM Montgomery, especially the first one, which was quite touching and charming. This one however was awful, very bloated with page after page of scenery and background [... more]
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Windflower (New Canadian Library)
WindFlower: Gabrielle Roy paints a portrait of a culture that has been interfered with by the materialist culture of America. The White dominant race has infiltrated the Innuit landscape, and the effects are portrayed at times as having devastating [... more]
$20.95
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Wooden Sword (New Canadian library ; no. 97)
Author: Edward Mccourt Binding: Mass Market Paperback EAN: 9780771091971 ISBN: 0771091974 Number Of Pages: 255 Publication Date: 1975-01-25 Release Date: 1975-01-25 [... more]
$2.95
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Emily Climbs (New Canadian Library)
Emily leaves New Moon for three years of high school at Shrewsbury: "Emily Climbs" is the middle volume of the Emily trilogy written by Lucy Maud Montgomery, which tells the story of the orphaned Emily Byrd Starr, a character much closer in [... more]
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A Jest of God (New Canadian Library)
An amazing journey of a woman finally finding herself: At first I thought of Rachel as paranoid and on the edge of sanity; however, by the end of the novel she has found her self and her voice. Her thoughts and feelings towards her mother and sister are [... more]
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Anne of Green Gables (New Canadian Library)
Amazon.com Review: When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts [... more]
$6.95
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