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New Canadian Library
In the mid-1950s, much Canadian literature was out of print, making it relatively inaccessible to readers, including those studying the subject in schools and universities. When English professor Malcolm Ross approached Toronto publisher Jack McClelland in 1952 to propose a Canadian literary reprint series, it was still the accepted wisdom among publishers that Canadian literature was of insufficient interest to the educational market to merit any great publishing risks. Eventually convinced by Ross that a latent market for Canadian literary reprints did indeed exist, McClelland & Stewart launched the New Canadian Library (NCL) series in 1958, with Ross as its general editor. In 2008, the NC...
New Canadian Library
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The Rich Man
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Bear
After five years buried like a mole amid the decaying maps and manuscripts of an historical institute, Lou is given a welcome field assignment: to catalogue a nineteenth-century library, improbably located in an octagonal house on a remote island in northern Ontario. Eager to reconstruct the estate's curious history, she is unprepared for her discovery that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear. Lou's imagination is soon overtaken by the estate's historical occupants, whose fascination with bear lore becomes her own. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-discovery, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature through her bizarre and healing relationship with the bear. A daring and compelling novel, Marian Engel's "Bear" won the Governor General's Award for 1976. "From the Hardcover edition."
A Jest of God
Rachel Cameron is a lonely schoolteacher, trapped by a tyrannically demanding mother, repressed and self-conscious, who has reached that crucial stage in her emotional life when she must either explode (which she cannot afford to do) or retreat into private fantasy. In her thirty-fourth summer, however, she finds release in a joyous but baffling affair through which her knowledge of herself as a woman capable of using the thwarted sexual energies of her nature, provides her with the strength to free herself. The setting is a dreary prairie town in Manitoba where suffocating social mores threaten the tenuous hold that an uncertain woman may have on reality. As universal as its biblical precedent, Rachel's story become in the author's hands as fresh and immediate as only the discovery of truth can be.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing.
White Narcissus
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The Backwoods of Canada
The toils, troubles and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers an account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a half years living in the bush near Peterborough, Ontario.
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland—one of Canada’s most beloved writers and one of Canada’s most significant publishers—enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian writing; in a very real sense, their mutual and separate work helped bring “Canadian Literature” into being. With its insider’s view of the book business from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters presents a valuable piece of Canadian literary history curated and annotated by Davis and Morra. This is essential reading for all those interested in Canada’s literary culture.
The Tin Flute
A family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance while searching for love.
