Canadian short stories
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Canadian short stories
Oxford University Press, [c2008]
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"First published as an Oxford world's classic 1960. Reprinted as an Oxford in Canada paperback 1966"--T.p. verso
NOTE:"Introduction and afterword c2008 Oxford University Press Canada"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Originally issued as an Oxford World's Classic, this groundbreaking book remains one of the finest anthologies of Canadian short fiction ever published, its selections as readable and relevant as they were back in 1960 when first chosen by editor Robert Weaver. Among the 27 stories included here are enduring classics by such early giants of Canadian literature as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Sinclair Ross; works by writers such as Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, and Mavis Gallant, then viewed as relative newcomers, now firmly ensconced in the pantheon of Canadian letters; and stories by Ethel Wilson, Hugh Garner, Joyce Marshall, and others less well-known to twenty-first century readers but whose stories still grip the imagination and tell us something about Canada and ourselves. Canadian Short Stories is a wynford book-one of a series of titles representing significant milestones in Canadian literature, thought, and scholarship.
Table of Contents
William E. Toye: Canadian Short Stories, Fifty Years Later
Robert Weaver: Introduction
E.W. Thompson (1849-1924): The Privilige of the Limits
Sir Charles G.D.Roberts (1860-1943): Strayed
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947): Paul Farlotte
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944): The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias
Frederick Philip Gove (1871-1948): Snow
Ethel Wilson (b. 1890): Mrs. Golightly and the First Convention
Ringuet (b. 1895): The Heritage
Raymond Knister (1900-32): Mist-Green Oats
Thomas H. Raddall (b. 1903): Blind MacNair
Morley Callaghan (b. 1903): Last Spring They Came Over
Morley Callaghan (b. 1903): A Sick Call
Leo Kennedy (b. 1907): A Priest in the Family
Sinclair Ross (b. 1908): The Painted Door
Ralph Gustafson (b. 1909): The Pigeon
Malcolm Lowry (1909-57): The Bravest Boat
Irving Layton (b. 1912): Vacation in La Voiselle
Hugh Garner (b. 1913): One, Two, Three Little Indians
Joyce Marshall (b. 1913): The Old Woman
W.O. Mitchell (b. 1914): The Owl and the Bens
P.K. Page (b. 1916): The Green Bird
Anne Hebert (b. 1916): The House on the Esplanade
Roger Lemelin (b. 1919): The Stations of the Cross
Mavis Gallant (b. 1922): The Legacy
James Reaney (b. 1926): The Bully
Douglas Spettigue (b. 1930): The Haying
Alice Munro (b. 1931): The Time of Death
Mordecai Richler (b. 1931): Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson's Daughter Bella
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