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Paving Our Ways
A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements
Av Maxwell Lay, John Metcalf m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
646 kr
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Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, …
Paving Our Ways
A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements
Av Maxwell Lay, John Metcalf m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2126 kr
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Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, …
Paving Our Ways
A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements
Av Kieran Sharp, John Metcalf m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
746 kr
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Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, …
Paving Our Ways
A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements
Av Kieran Sharp, John Metcalf m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
746 kr
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Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, …
Pictures of Bible History
Av John Metcalf, Charles W. Former Owner Mb Phillips
Häftad, 2021
168 kr
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Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough
With Many Entertaining Anecdotes of His Exploits in Hunting, Card-Playing, &c. Some Particulars Relative to the Expedition Against the Rebels in 1745, in Which He Bore a Personal Share
Av John Metcalf
Inbunden, 2023
393 kr
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Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough
With Many Entertaining Anecdotes of His Exploits in Hunting, Card-Playing, &c. Some Particulars Relative to the Expedition Against the Rebels in 1745, in Which He Bore a Personal Share
Av John Metcalf
Häftad, 2023
227 kr
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Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough
Av John Metcalf
Häftad, 2025
193 kr
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The Life of John Metcalf
Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough
Av John Metcalf
Häftad, 2017
373 kr
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Blinded by smallpox at the age of six, John Metcalf (1717-1810) led a life that might have featured in an eighteenth-century novel. Popularly known as 'Blind Jack of Knaresborough', Metcalf had many and varied careers, including musician, horse trader, fish supplier, textile merchant and …
Vital Signs
The Collected Novellas
Av John Metcalf
E-bok, 2016
304 kr
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Vital Signs brings together the collected novellas by a modern master of the form, by a writer who Alice Munro has said "often comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer can get." Elegant, wry, compassionate and mischievous, Vital Signs will pierce both funny bone and …
Canadian Short Story
Av John Metcalf
E-bok, 2018
229 kr
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No other person has done more to celebrate and encourage the short story in Canada than John Metcalf. For more than five decades he has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of the form and what it can do. The long-time editor of the …
Museum at the End of the World
Av John Metcalf
E-bok, 2016
228 kr
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Set in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Ottawa, Ontario, the stories in The Museum at the End of the World span the life of writer Robert Ford and his wife Sheila. Playing with various forms of comedy throughout, author John Metcalf paints a portrait of 20th century literary life with levity, …
Light Shining Out of Darkness
And Other Stories
E-bok, 2018
168 kr
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Like the paintings of Jan Vermeer and Edward Hopper, Hugh Hood’s short fiction looks hard at what some might call the surface of things. Like the finely wrought realism of those canvases, Hood’s super-realist style doesn’t just see—it sees into. While his early publications prompted his reputation …
Best Canadian Stories
Av John Metcalf
E-bok, 2017
194 kr
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Now in its 47th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Lynn Coady, Mavis …
Finding Again the World
Selected Stories
Av John Metcalf
E-bok, 2018
137 kr
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Finding Again the World brings together a dozen of the best stories by John Metcalf, a modern master of the form. Spanning more than fifty years and ranging from some of his earliest published stories, such as “Dandelions” and “The Eastmill Reception Centre,” to his latest, with “Ceazer Salad” and …
Temerity & Gall
Av John Metcalf
Häftad, 2022
202 kr
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“[Metcalf’s] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.”—Washington PostIn Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing.In …
Temerity & Gall
Av John Metcalf
E-bok, 2022
310 kr
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“[Metcalf’s] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.”— Washington Post In Temerity & Gall , Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing. …
Off the Record
Av John Metcalf
Häftad, 2024
195 kr
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Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how they became writers instead of radio announcers or cabinet makers. The essays collected here, each …
Off the Record
Av John Metcalf
E-bok, 2023
213 kr
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Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record , he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how they became writers instead of radio announcers or cabinet makers. The essays collected here, each …
Stigma
William Hoffer and the Final Judgement Construction Company
Av John Metcalf
Häftad, 2027
264 kr
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In Stigma: William Hoffer and the Final Judgement Construction Company, editor John Metcalf compiles a selection of essays on bookseller William Hoffer by a range of Canadian publishers and academics, accompanied by Hoffer’s letters, journal entries, and essays—providing a critical lens for …
Selected Essays
Av Clark Blaise, John Metcalf m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
348 kr
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Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual …
Going Down Slow
Av John Metcalf
E-bok, 2007
198 kr
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A satirical novel about one man''s attempt to maintain sanity and sense of humour in the face of mounting odds.
Shut Up He Explained
Av John Metcalf
E-bok, 2007
320 kr
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John Metcalf''s Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition. Part memoir, part travelogue, part criticism -- wholly Metcalf -- it is thoughtful, engaged, contentious and often very funny. It offers a full does of Metcalfian wisdom and wit, and provides ample evidence that neither …
Selected Essays
Av Clark Blaise, J. R. (Tim) Struthers m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
274 kr
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Clark Blaise''s Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such …
Aesthetic Underground
A Literary Memoir
Av John Metcalf
E-bok, 2014
247 kr
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"John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."—Alice Munro The Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary legend whose memoir maps the underground he …
London A to Z
Av John Metcalf
Häftad, 2016
80 kr
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First published in 1953, the year that saw thousands descend on London to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, London A to Z is a lexicon of the city's curiosities, from the Achilles statue in Hyde Park 'erected by the women of England to honour (if not to resemble) the Duke of Wellington', …
