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For years Rachel Cameron has dreamed of leaving her small town and her manipulative mother; but duty and caution have kept her at home. At thirty-four...
The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series," named for the sm...
The correspondence between Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman covers a period of 40 years, from 1947-1986, and encompasses the professional and perso...
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The author's interpretation of Jesus' birth and the subsequent visit of the three kings....
Morag Gunn is a writer in her mid-forties who lives in a riverside farm in East Ontario. Her eighteen-year-old daughter is suffering from a profound l...
Nurturing Self-Discovery and Personal Growth invites readers to explore Laurence's rich literary legacy. Through her novels, readers can glean valuabl...
Travel was closely connected to Margaret Laurenceโs creativity. Laurence realized that her travels, especially to Africa, provided her with new pers...
Stacey MacAindra burns โ to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember ...
Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Vivid, evocative, moving, The Stone Angel celebrates the triumph of the spirit, and reveals Margaret Laurence at the height of her powers as a writer ...
Essays in Honour of Margaret Laurence
In Crossing the River, thirteen Canadian and European scholars celebrate the life and work of Margaret Laurence. ". . . all students of Laurence's art...
Essays by and about Margaret Laurence
Originally published in a small edition in 1954, A Tree for Poverty was Margaret Laurenceโs first published book. In this new edition, Laurenceโs ...
The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel, now available as a Penguin Modern Clas...
Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists, 1952-1966
Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text and a glossary complete this edition."-...
The Letters of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy
The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature. In 1976, when both were at the height of their car...
Stories
A Bird in the House is a series of eight interconnected short stories narrated by Vanessa MacLeod as she matures from a child at age ten into a young ...
One of Canada's most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beaut...
A Memoir
In a writing career spanning nearly three decades, Margaret Laurence became one of the most celebrated and widely read authors in the world. In this, ...
When Margaret Laurence set out for Somaliland with her engineer husband in 1950, she confronted the difficulty of communication between peoples of vas...
Donation Short Story Collection....
A literary study guide that includes summaries and commentaries....
In 1957, the British colony of the Gold Coast broke free to become the independent nation of Ghana. Margaret Laurence's first novel, This Side Jordan,...
A Memoir of Somaliland
In 1950, as a young bride, Margaret Laurence set out with her engineer husband to what was then Somaliland: a British protectorate in North Africa few...
Selected Letters from Margaret Laurence to Canadian Writers
This collection of letters from Margaret Laurence to thirty-three Canadian writers is an intensely personal articulation of her development as a write...
Convinced that life has more to offer than the tedious routine of her days, Stacey MacAindra yearns to recover some of the passion of her early romanc...
Rachel Cameron is a lonely schoolteacher, trapped by a tyrannically demanding mother, repressed and self-conscious, who has reached that crucial stage...
Short Nonfiction Writings
A critical edition of over fifty essays by Margaret Laurence about Canada and its land, peoples, politics, and literature....
" ... a compelling journey seen through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her life. At ninety, Hagar Shipley speaks movingly of the perils of gro...
Sal decides to explore the contents of an old trunk in Grand's back shed. There she discovers a girl's winter coat. After she tries it on, Sal is tran...
The troubled journey of a prairie novelist from the social cruelty of her village to a modicum of personal serenity and professional success....