Tous les ebooks de la collection "Early Canadian Literature" - Wilfrid Laurier University Press


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Télécharger le livre :  Argimou
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Argimou


S. Douglass S. Huyghue


Both an adventure-laced captivity tale and an impassioned denunciation of the marginalization of Indigenous culture in the face of European colonial expansion, Douglass Smith Huyghue’s Argimou (1847) is the first Canadian novel to describe the fall of eighteenth-century...

Parution : 2017-08-24
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Télécharger le livre :  In Due Season
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In Due Season


Christine Van Der Mark


First published in 1947, In Due Season broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this tersely narrated prize-winning novel follows Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who takes her...

Parution : 2016-05-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Flying Years
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The Flying Years


Frederick Niven


Originally published in 1935, Frederick Niven’s The Flying Years tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by Angus Munro, a young Scot forced to emigrate to Canada when his family is evicted from their farm. Working in the isolated...

Parution : 2015-07-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Forest of Bourg-Marie
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The Forest of Bourg-Marie


S. Frances Harrison


In The Forest of Bourg-Marie, originally published in 1898, Toronto author and musician S. Frances Harrison draws together a highly mythologized image of Quebec society and the forms of Gothic literature that were already familiar to her English-speaking audience. It...

Parution : 2015-06-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Seats of the Mighty
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The Seats of the Mighty


Gilbert Parker


From the pen of Gilbert Parker comes one of the most popular Canadian novels of the late nineteenth century. First published simultaneously in Canada and the United States in 1896, The Seats of the Mighty is set in Quebec City in 1759, against the backdrop of the...

Parution : 2015-01-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation
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The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation


George Copway


The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation (1850) was one of the first books of Indigenous history written by an Indigenous author.The book blends nature writing and narrative to describe the language, religious beliefs, stories, land,...

Parution : 2014-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Painted Fires
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Painted Fires


Nellie L. Mcclung


Painted Fires, first published in 1925, narrates the trials and tribulations of Helmi Milander, a Finnish immigrant, during the years approaching the First World War. The novel serves as a vehicle for McClung’s social activism, especially in terms of temperance, woman...

Parution : 2014-07-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Foreigner
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The Foreigner


Ralph Connor


The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of “muscular Christianity” recurring in Connor’s popular Western tales. Daniel...

Parution : 2014-04-17
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