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  • Swinging the Maelstrom

    A Critical Edition

    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry.This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The 1940 Under the Volcano

    A Critical Edition

    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    The 1940 Under the Volcano—hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece—differs from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself. Joining the recently published Swinging the Maelstrom and In Ballast to the White Sea, The 1940 Under the Volcano takes its rightful place ... Read more

    $14.99 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

    $26.99 USD

  • 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

    Series series Famous Novels Publishing
    Free Audiobook LinksIn all, this volume is comprised of the following works:1 ANNE OF GREEN GABLES2 ANNE OF AVONLEA3 ANNE OF THE ISLAND4 Anne's House of Dreams5 RAINBOW VALLEY6 Rilla of Ingleside7 THE STORY GIRL8 THE GOLDEN ROAD9 KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD10 CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA11 FURTHER CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA ... Read more

    $2.77 USD

  • Anne of Green Gables (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Anne's World

    A New Century of Anne of Green Gables

    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 her story continue to grow and change. The original essays in Anne's World offer fresh and timely ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Graeme Gibson Interviews Alice Munro

    From Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson

    In honour of Alice Munro's Nobel Prize for Literature, Anansi Digital is re-releasing a candid interview with Munro by Canadian novelist Graeme Gibson.Taken from Eleven Canadian Novelists, which was originally published in 1973 by House of Anansi Press, the interview is a revealing and wide-ranging dialogue between two writers, and a rare view of Munro and her work.With the intuition of an insider ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

    A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

    Series series A List
    As a part of the launch of the new A-List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known Canadian writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Survival, with an introduction by the author.01 When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Blockade

    Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin

    Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver—or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life-giving possibilities of dams ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Memory Serves

    by Lee Maracle ...
    Series Book 13 - Writer as Critic
    Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

    A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

    Edited by John Moss, Linda M. Morra ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

    An Anatomy of a Book Burning

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Series series Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading

    by Dionne Brand ...
    Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this…coloniality constructs outsides and insides—worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated—in order to live something like a real self. Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Mrs Dalloway

    Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-World War I England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Tout à propos des livres que j’ai écrits et publiés

    Je désirais en faire part depuis un certain temps et après la publication de mon dernier livre, Le Buddha Board, j’ai décidé que le moment était venu. Je crois sincèrement qu’il est important de communiquer avec les lecteurs afin de leur donner plus de réalité de qui je suis en tant qu’écrivaine et ce qui a fait que je sois maintenant une écrivaine qui a écrit et publié plus d’une douzaine de ... Read more

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  • The L.M. Montgomery Reader

    Volume One: A Life in Print

    Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.The first volume, A Life in Print, focuses specifically on Montgomery’s role as a public celebrity and author of the resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908). The ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Violence Against Indigenous Women

    Literature, Activism, Resistance

    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature contribute where dominant anti-violence initiatives have failed?Centring the voices of contemporary ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Best of Tamblings

    2015-2015

    The best essays from the Tamblings newsletter for 2015-2016. ... Read more

    $0.79 USD

  • This Is My Country, What's Yours?

    A Literary Atlas of Canada

    by Noah Richler ...
    Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fictionA Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006)National Post Best Books (2006)A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers.Stories are the surest way to know a place, and at a time when the fabric of the country seems daily more uncertain, Noah Richler looks to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood

    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Margaret Atwood offers an immensely influential voice in contemporary literature. Her novels have been translated into over 22 languages and are widely studied, taught and enjoyed. Her style is defined by her comic wit and willingness to experiment. Her work has ranged across several genres, from poetry to literary and cultural criticism, novels, short stories and art. This Introduction summarizes ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Canadian Short Story

    by John Metcalf ...
    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 yearly Best Canadian Stories anthology, as well as a fiction editor at some of the pre-eminent ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Survival

    Series series FPQ
    Toronto in the twenty-first century: At night, a beacon on a lonely ancient lake, a drainage pond from the last ice age. In the daytime, a bulwark of glass, glinting in the radiant sun. Joe, Mary, and her cat, Sam, sit in a lakeside condo, trapped by a crazed, mysterious sniper. What has become of their lives? What has become of their city? What has become of their century? As the situation begins ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Celtic Temperament

    Robertson Davies as Diarist

    Versatile and prolific, Robertson Davies was an actor, journalist and newspaper publisher, playwright, essayist, founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and one of Canada’s greatest novelists. He was also an obsessive, complex, and self-revealing diarist. His diaries, which he began as a teenager, grew to over 3 million words and are an astonishing literary legacy. This ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys

    The Ontario Years, 1911-1961

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) and Anne of Green Gables will always be associated with Prince Edward Island, Montgomery's childhood home and the setting of her most famous novels. Yet, after marrying Rev. Ewan Macdonald in 1911, she lived in Ontario for three decades. There she became a mother of two sons, fulfilled the duties of a minister's wife, advocated for copyright protection and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD