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  • The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes

    Edited by David Staines ...
    "Eminently readable. . . . a translator who understands the spirit as well as the letter of the original and renders it with style." — SpeculumThis new translation brings to life for a new generation of readers the stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, Gawain, Perceval, Yvain, and the other "knights and ladies" of Chrétien de Troyes' famous chivalric romances."A pleasure to read." — Library ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Worlds of Michael Ondaatje

    Essays

    Edited by David Staines ...
    David Staines's The Worlds of Michael Ondaatje introduces a wide-ranging exploration of the life and work of one of today's most original literary figures.Opening with Ondaatje's Golden Man Booker Prize win for The English Patient, the book traces the author's remarkable life—from his Sri Lankan childhood and English schooling to his creative awakening in Canada—and his evolution as poet, novelist ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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  • The Loved and the Lost

    by Morley Callaghan, Edmund Wilson ...
    Series series Exile Classics series
    Set in the early 1950s in Montreal, this is the story of enigmatic Peggy Sanderson—a woman who has become a socially awkward presence due to her open and casual association with black musicians in Lower Town nightclubs. White and black men assume she must be involved sexually with the musicians, white women are perplexed by her, and black women both fear and loathe her. Yet Peggy's almost ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Financial Career and Other Follies

    by Stephen Leacock, David Staines ...
    Series series New Canadian Library
    This original NCL collection brings together Leacock’s comic masterpieces, the many varieties of his remarkable humour. In one story a young man is seized by fear as he attempts to open his first bank account. In another, Lord Ronald, the beloved of Gertrude the Governess, “flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.” In a third, the Mariposa Belle sinks in the shallow ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A History of Canadian Fiction

    by David Staines ...
    A History of Canadian Fiction is the first one-volume history to chart its development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada's literary growth alongside its remarkable history. Highlighting the people who have shaped and are shaping Canadian literary culture, the book examines such major figures ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections

    Edited by David Staines ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal

    Edited by David Staines ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Watchman of Kerioth

    by David Staines ...
    There is a door that lies between the worlds of men and angels.When orphans Joshua and Lucy are summoned by their grandfather, who has disowned them, they feel convinced that his intentions are far from charitable, Sure enough, they soon find themselves each on a dangerous quest - one in the world of angels, the other in the world of men - but who is orchestrating the events that unfold?About the ... Read more

    $3.22 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

    Edited by David Staines ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories, and her ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Worlds of Carol Shields

    Edited by David Staines ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    "Carol was a very fine writer and a remarkable human being, a wonderful person whose work I closely followed for more than 20 years. I interviewed her frequently over those years, with virtually every work she produced —novel, radio drama, play, book of stories. So I had a good sense of the span of her work and also her evolution as a stylist. But the key reason I wanted to make a book focusing on ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Selected Letters of Stephen Leacock

    Edited by David Staines ...
    Widely recognized as Canada's finest literary humorist, Stephen Leacock was a prolific author, publishing over sixty books during his lifetime, in addition to countless articles and pamphlets. He was also a devoted correspondent, writing hundreds of letters to friends, relatives, and business associates. Illustrated with several original photographs, The Letters of Stephen Leacock brings together ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Tennyson’s Camelot

    The Idylls of the King and its Medieval Sources

    by David Staines ...
    As the principal narrative poem of nineteenth-century England, Tennyson's Idylls of the King is an ambitious and widely influential reworking of the Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages, which have provided a great body of myth and symbol to writers, painters, and composers for the past hundred years. Tennyson's treatment of these legends is now valued as a deeply significant oblique commentary on ... Read more

    $33.19 USD