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Anne's World
A New Century of Anne of Green Gables
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2010
The recent 100 year anniversary of the first publication of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables has inspired renewed interest in one of Canada's most beloved fictional icons. The international appeal of the red-haired orphan has not diminished over the past century, and the cultural meanings of...
Complete Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island,Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley,Rilla of Ingleside, Chronicles of Avonlea, Further Chronicles of Avonlea, Free Audiobook Links
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
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In all, this volume is comprised of the following works:
1 ANNE OF GREEN GABLES 2 ANNE OF AVONLEA 3 ANNE OF THE ISLAND 4 Anne's House of Dreams 5 RAINBOW VALLEY 6 Rilla of Ingleside 7 THE STORY GIRL 8 THE GOLDEN ROAD 9 KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD 10 CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA 11 FURTHER CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA
by Neil Bissoondath
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Stories shape the world, imposing order on chaos, and the stories we tell declare: I exist. Neil Bissoondath presses these assertions about narrative further. Stories are also, he says, forms of confession. Each time we tell a story, we reveal a little about our experiences, dreams, fears, desires,...
by David Adams Richards
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
In this provocative essay, David Adams Richards brings together his ideas about writing -- how great works of literature are created, the writer's essential position as an outsider, and the difficulties writers experience in the pursuit of personal truth. The quest for truth always comes with a price,...
Killdeer
essay-poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
WINNER OF THE 75th GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY
WINNER OF THE 25th TRILLIUM BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF AN ALCUIN AWARD FOR DESIGN
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
These are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not...
by Daniel Karasik
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
People grow in dimensions other than those we perceive.The teenage narrator of award-winning author Daniel Karasik’s latest story must deal with the fact that his older sister is now a grown woman, and Lucy, his crush-next-door, has become a mystery, with depths beyond his comprehension. Has he been coasting all this time, school and television his life’s only sources of momentum?
If You’re Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free?
Literature and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The essays in If You're Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free?: Literature and Social Change focus on the interconnection of community/workplace/individual and how literature (and thinking about literature) has a role in social struggles aimed at making that nexus more liberatory. The essays' topics...
Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase
Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
I: Altered States
The first section of the book includes essays on literature investigating the breakdown of systems and the possibility of envisioning–or creating–new spaces for agency, creativity, and critical engagement.
The False Laws of Narrative
The Poetry of Fred Wah
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the poets entire poetic trajectory to date. A founding editor of Tish magazine, Wah was influenced by leading progressive and innovative poets of the 1960s and was at the forefront of the exploration of racial hybridity, multiculturalism,...
by Donna Bailey Nurse
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In Whats a Black Critic to Do II, literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse once again gathers together profiles, reviews, interviews, and essays that examine race, culture, and multiculturalism through the lens of literature. This collection, featuring well-known writers such as Lawrence Hill, Afua Cooper,...
Grandchild of Empire
About Irony, Mainly in the Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Canada's foremost literary critic looks at the politics of irony in modern writing and explains how it relates to imperial history, how it impacts upon personal memories, how it speaks from the margin, and how it indirectly teaches us to resist presumptuous authority. Funny, informed and emotionally...
Daniel David Moses
Spoken and Written Explorations of His Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This collection is a compelling examination and discussion of the work of Indigenous writer Daniel David Moses. Including pieces by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, storytellers, playwrights, academics and artists, participating in narratives, writing and dialogues about Moses and his work,...
by Dave Margoshes
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Having lived a long, eventful life, Charlie Weinheimer’s only regret is that he has no one to carry on after him. After a near-death experience, he resolves to find out whether a secret buried in his past is proof he has a legacy after all.
“Margoshes gives us the life of...
Attack of the Copula Spiders
Essays on Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012Glover is a master of narrative structure.”-Wall Street JournalIn the tradition of E.M. Forster, John Gardner, and James Wood, Douglas Glover has produced a book on writing at once erudite, anecdotal, instructive, and amusing. Attack of the Copula Spiders...