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  • Selections from Canadian Poets

    With Occasional Critical and Biographical Notes and an Introductory Essay on Canadian Poetry

    Series series Heritage
    Selections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864. It was the first anthology of native Canadian poetry and was compiled, as Edward Hartlet Dewart explained, in order to 'rescue from oblivion some of the floating pieces of Canadian authorship worthy of preservation in a more permanent form ...' This anthology, like any other, reflects the tastes of the ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Love on the Marsh

    Love on the Marsh a long poem in 100 stanzas is described by Lochhead as an extension of High Marsh Road and brother and sister to it. The diary-like entries a form to which Lochhead has frequently returned over the years can also be compared to his work in The Panic Field. By turns earthy and ethereal a pilgrimage through a landscape of grass and sky and tumultuous emotions Love on the Marsh ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Love on the Marsh

    Love on the Marsh, a long poem in 100 stanzas, is described by Lochhead as "an extension of High Marsh Road" and "brother and sister to it". The diary-like entries, a form to which Lochhead has frequently returned over the years, can also be compared to his work in The Panic Field. By turns earthy and ethereal, a pilgrimage through a landscape of grass and sky and tumultuous emotions, Love on the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • My Lady of the Snows

    Series series Heritage
    'This book has a twofold meaning,' writes the author, '— that of a political novel, and that of the portrayal of a great love and a religious drama.' One of the most interesting Canadian novels of the period 1880 to 1920, it depicts conditions in Canada during an era when the country was in a state of transition,' that is, prior to the last election during John A. Macdonald's administration. ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • Literary History of Canada

    Canadian Literature in English, Volume IV (Second Edition)

    Series series Heritage
    This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and the specialist researcher.The contributors to this volume are Laurie Ricou, David Jackel, Linda ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Guilty

    A Canadian Story From Real Life

    Series series Heritage
    This is a Canadian temperance novel which traces a man's downfall, degradation, and eventual victory over alcohol. A reproduction of the painting 'Guilty' by Stuart Taggart is used as a frontispiece. ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Dot It Down

    A Story of Life in the North-West

    Series series Heritage
    Dealing in part with the people involved in the Red River Rebellion of 1869-70, the novel is based on Begg's own experiences in the Red River Settlement and describes the realities of pioneer life. 'Dot It Down' was the nickname of Charles Mair, poet and member of the Canada First Movement. ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Honor Edgeworth

    Series series Heritage
    This light romance portrays in considerable detail the social life of Ottawa in the post-Confederation years. The gossip of the capital and the prevailing social customs strengthen the story of Honor Edgeworth's courtship. It is a novel of manners with a happy ending. ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • New Provinces

    Poems of Several Authors

    Edited by Douglas Lochhead ...
    Series series Heritage
    When New Provinces first appeared in 1936, it represented four years of planning, argument, and compromise, and an additional two and a half years of correspondence and editorial preparation. This prolonged effort was brought to a successful end with the publication of a slim collection of verse, the work of six writers, Robert Finch, Leo Kennedy, A.M. Klein, E.J. Pratt, F.R. Scott, and A.J.M. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Cousin Cinderella

    Series series Heritage
    After experiencing life in London, the narrator and her brother discover that they are Canadians, not colonials. Their encounters with Englishmen and Americans demonstrate that there are three distinct countries, each with a character of its own, but sharing common interests. This is an early novel on the eternal theme of identity. ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • A Canadian Bankclerk

    Series series Heritage
    Of this novel of Canadian business life and village and city social conditions in the early twentieth century, the author explains that his object is 'to enlighten the public concerning life behind the wicket and thus pave the way for the legitimate organization of bankclerks into a fraternal association, for their financial and social (including moral) betterment.' ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • In the Midst of Alarms

    Series series Heritage
    This satirical and witty first novel is a high-spirited account of the 1866 Fenian 'invasion' of Canada near Ridgeway. Adding spice to the novel are the romances of the two leading men, a Toronto professor and an American reporter, who become involved with farmer's daughters. ... Read more

    $30.99 USD