A Book of Canadian stories

Pacey, Desmond, 1917-1975 (editor).

Summary: Dr. Pacey's highly regarded collection of short stories now reissued in paperback includes the work of twenty-nine Canadian writers. Contemporary writers such as Irving Layton, Hugh Garner, Alden Nowlan, and Brian Moore are included as well as earlier prose writers Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Stephen Leacock, Morely Callaghan and Frederick Philip Grove. Dr. Pacey has written a detailed historical introduction to this fourth edition and provided copious notes on all authors. Essentially Canadian in flavour, these stories provide insight into the problems of the Canadian nation.

Record details

Physical Description: xxxvii, 295 pages ; 22 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1947.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The locksmith of Philadelphia / Joseph Howe -- Sam Slick the clockmaker / Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- Old Woodruff and his three wives / Susanna Moodie -- The priviledge of the limits / Edward W. Thomson -- The young ravens that call upon him / Charles G.D. Roberts -- Paul Farlotte / Duncan Campbell Scott -- The speculations of Jefferson Thorpe / Stephen Leacock -- The fruits of toil / Norman Duncan -- Snow / Frederick Philip Grove -- The worker in Sandalwood / Marjorie Pickthall -- Come fly with me / Mazo de la roche -- Hurry, hurry! / Ethel Wilson -- The movies comes to Gull Piont / Will R. Bird -- The strawstack / Raymon Knister -- The amulet / Thomas H. Raddall -- The blue kimono / Morley Callaghan -- The lamp at noon / Sinclair Ross -- The first born son / Ernest Buckler -- The pigeon / Ralph Gustafson -- Storms of our journey / David Walker -- A plausible story / Irving Layton -- One, two, three little Indians / Hugh Garner -- The boat / Desmond Pacey -- Lion in the afternoon / Brian Moore -- Two sisters in Geneva / Henry Kreisel -- Requiem for Bibul / Jack Ludwig -- Benny / Mordecai Richler -- Sundaya afternoon / Alice Munro -- True confession / Alden a. Nowlan