Early Canadian Literature – serie
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Foreigner
A Tale of Saskatchewan
Av Ralph Connor
Häftad, 2014
380 kr
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The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of ""muscular Christianity"" recurring in Connor's popular Western tales. Daniel Coleman's afterword …
Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation
Häftad, 2014
321 kr
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The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation (1850) was one of the first books of Indigenous history written by an Indigenous author. The book blends nature writing and narrative to describe the language, religious beliefs, stories, land, work, and play of the Ojibway …
Painted Fires
Häftad, 2014
358 kr
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Painted Fires, first published in 1925, narrates the trials and tribulations of Helmi Milander, a Finnish immigrant, during the years approaching the First World War. The novel serves as a vehicle for McClung's social activism, especially in terms of temperance, woman suffrage, and immigration …
Forest of Bourg-Marie
Häftad, 2015
358 kr
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In The Forest of Bourg-Marie, originally published in 1898, Toronto author and musician S. Frances Harrison draws together a highly mythologized image of Quebec society and the forms of Gothic literature that were already familiar to her English-speaking audience. It tells the story of a …
Seats of the Mighty
Av Gilbert Parker, Andrea Cabajsky
Häftad, 2015
351 kr
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From the pen of Gilbert Parker comes one of the most popular Canadian novels of the late nineteenth century. First published simultaneously in Canada and the United States in 1896, The Seats of the Mighty is set in Quebec City in 1759, against the backdrop of the conflict between the English and …
In Due Season
Häftad, 2016
380 kr
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First published in 1947, In Due Season broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this tersely narrated prize-winning novel follows Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who takes her family from drought-ridden …
Flying Years
Häftad, 2015
358 kr
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Originally published in 1935, Frederick Niven's The Flying Years tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by Angus Munro, a young Scot forced to emigrate to Canada when his family is evicted from their farm. Working in the isolated setting of Rocky Mountain …
Argimou
A Legend of the Micmac
Häftad, 2017
361 kr
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Both an adventure-laced captivity tale and an impassioned denunciation of the marginalization of Indigenous culture in the face of European colonial expansion, Douglass Smith Huyghue's Argimou (1847) is the first Canadian novel to describe the fall of eighteenth-century Fort Beauséjour and the …
