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Before C.S. Forester achieved literary success with his famous saga of Captain Horatio Hornblower and the great romantic novels such as “The Africa Queen”, he had a difficult time making his start as an author. LongBefore Forty is the account of his lonely struggle to...
Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2021-11-06
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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Today, H. G. Wells is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as “The Time Machine” (1895), “The Invisible Man” (1897), and “The War of the Worlds” (1898). Here, Wells recounts his childhood, school days, struggle...
Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2021-11-04
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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For over three-quarters of a century, the Governor General’s Literary Awards have been awarded annually in a variety of evolving categories. Fifteen Governors General have served as their patron. The impressive list continues to grow apace: between 1936 and 2018, the...
Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2021-03-24
Format(s) : ePub
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Born in Hungary in 1975, Akos Verboczy moved to Montreal, Quebec at the age of 11 with his sister and mother, an esthetician, who learned that in Canada women were willing to pay a fortune ($20) to have their leg hair brutally ripped out.
His story begins in Hungary,...
Editeur : Baraka Books
Parution : 2017-03-24
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection :
Laurier Poetry
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Arms of the Infinite takes the reader inside the minds of author Christopher Barker’s parents, writer Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) and poet George Barker. From their first fateful meeting and subsequent elopement, Barker candidly...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-11-15
Format(s) : ePub
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What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer’s archive? Collections of authors’ manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the published text. JoAnn McCaig sets out to show how archival materials can...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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An accurate and comprehensive study of the political aspects of Fielding's art has been sorely needed. As a result of decades of work by literary scholars and a series of great historians, such a study is finally possible. This volume addresses that need, and, in the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01
Format(s) : PDF
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Bruno Jasienski was a bilingual Polish-Russian writer who died in exile in Siberia in 1939. This volume traces his literary evolution. The introductory biographical sketch is followed by a discussion of Jasienski's contribution to Polish poetry, specifically the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 1983-01-06
Format(s) : PDF
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