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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973. 945 pp, 9 1/2" H. "This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of Canadian literature provides a comprehensive, up-to-date reference work on the English literary history of Canada. It will be invaluable as a source of information on authors, genres, and literary trends and influences. It is also a fascinating account, lively and well written, of the ways in which writers have over the centuries striven to record reactions to a powerful natural environment and to their society against the background of other literary traditions in English. This volume represents a positive attempt to give a history of Canada in terms of writings which deserve attention because of significant thought, form, and use of language; it also aims to contribute to criticism by offering reasons for singling out those works regarded as the best." Very minor edge wear to boards. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has light edge wear/wrinkling -…
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by Tait, Edith W
In His Name
by Tait, Edith W
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Gilbert Printing Co., Asheville, c.1960, 12mo., rebound in cloth, 78pp., signed inscription by author but the inscribee has been mostly erased. ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, ow VG $
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