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Line Breaks
Line Breaks: A Writing Life tells the story of George Galt's deeply religious childhood, the turmoil of his escape from the ultra-conservative values of his family, and his ultimate success in gaining a toehold in the realm of books and writing as poet, non-fiction writer, and editor. A settler clan with nineteenth-century Canadian roots, the Galts had produced judges, businessmen, and a confederation-era cabinet minister. In Scotland, the family's patriarch had been an improvident author of some distinction, the novelist John Galt, who settled briefly in Canada in the 1820s. George's family established itself in Winnipeg and moved to Montreal when his father took up a job with the Sun Life ...
Conflict and Collaboration
Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions, structures, and assumptions of comedy in his tragic writing. She argues that Shakespeare's early mastery of romantic comedy deeply influenced his tragedies both in dramaturgy and in the expression and development of his tragic vision. From this perspective she sheds new light on Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. The author shows Shakespeare's tragic vision evolving as he moves through three possibilities: comedy and tragedy fu...
Sir John A.'s Crusade and Seward's Magnificent Folly
This work of historical fiction is based on the challenges faced by John A. Macdonald just before Confederation in 1867. His colleagues at the London Conference are not unanimously supportive. He is the target of Fenian assassins, and the impending U.S. purchase of Alaska makes the colony of British Columbia vulnerable.
Uganda
A thoroughly revised and updated guide to East Africa's center of adventure.
Hand-book of Canadian Dates
This paper is a listing of events and subjects under various headings (discoveries, treaties, names of individuals holding an office in government etc.).
