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The author's interpretation of Jesus' birth and the subsequent visit of the three kings. ... Read more

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Beautifully described Christmas Story
Margaret Laurence is simply charming. She describes the story of the birth Of Jesus exquistely.A cheerful rendition of the orginial birth of Jesus with the plight his mother and father must endure to find a secure and safe place for this historical birth of Jesus.Delightful illustrations accompany this book. Hats off to you Margaret Laurence. We have read this heart warming story to our children for the past 20 years.You will enjoy this, perhaps even as a new family tradition. We will now read this treasure to our new grandchildren. ... Read more

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Sinclair Ross’ 1941 novel As For Me and My House is a masterpiece of Canadian literature, a stunning evocation of the Prairies and their inhabitants during the Depression of the Thirties. With The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories, an original New Canadian Library collection, Ross reveals further dimensions of his fictional universe.

A woman’s impulsive infidelity leads to tragedy. A sudden hailstorm destroys hope. A boy learns to conquer a beautiful wild horse. A little girl dreams about a circus. Against the isolated, haunting landscapes of summer droughts and winter blizzards, the men and women of Ross’ stories grapple with fate against almost impossible odds. Marked by a legacy of pride that will not suffer defeat, Ross’ unyielding characters are cut off from their loved ones by obstinacy and defiance. Their tragedy is not that they suffer, but that they suffer alone.

The sensitivity, compassion, and subtlety with which Ross portrays human aspirations and failings remain to this day unequalled in Canadian fiction.


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A sad, sad story...
Terribly, terribly sad.The lamp becomes the framework, the stage for this story.There is the feeling of coming full circle, and of defeat; resignation.There is a certain desperation in the story that isdepressing and overwhelming.Not an enjoyable read, but an engrossing one. ... Read more

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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, her final work, Margaret Laurence reveals the story of her fascinating life, the process of her writing, and the people and emotional journeys which accompanied it. She relates her experiences living in different cultures; the issues and causes she so passionately upheld; her personal battle against censorship. She also pays tribute to the three women from whom she drew important spiritual strength.

Including a selection of her articles, speeches, and letters – many never before published – and photographs selected by Margaret Laurence from her personal family albums, Dance on the Earth is a book of celebration and exploration in which Margaret Laurence speaks openly about her place in the world as a woman, a writer, and a concerned human being. ... Read more

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Margaret Laurence's Long Drums and Cannons is a fascinating study of African postcolonial writing, written by Laurence after her early years in Africa. Laurence writes that the "most enduringinteresting aspect of Nigerian literature is the insights it gives not only into immediate and local dilemmas, but through these, into the human dilemma as a whole." Her comments on the early writings of well-known Nigerian authors-Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, John Pepper Clark, Amos Tutuola, and Cyprian Ekwensi-also provide insights into her early African writings and her later Canadian works. She also explores the works of then little-known authors, including Flora Nwapa, Nigeria's first woman novelist, Gabriel Okara, T.M. Aluko, Elechi Amadi, Onuora Nzekwu, and Nkem Nwankwo. This new edition of Long Drums and Cannons, originally published in 1968 and long out of print, also contains Laurence's previously unpublished essay "Tribalism As Us Versus Them,"which provides Laurence's own postscript to her book. A Foreword by her colleague, Douglas Killam, a Preface by Christian Riegel, a new Introduction by Nora Foster Stovel, and a commentary on "Nigerian Literature" by Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah place Laurence's work in a contemporary context. Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text, and a glossary complete thisedition. Long Drums and Cannons is a classic of early postcolonial criticism, of interest to Laurence's wide readership and to anyone interested in African literature. "I am happy to see a reissue of this important book by a great ambassador of literary culture."-Chinua AchebeNora Foster Stovel, the editor, is Professor of English at the University of Alberta. ... Read more

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Between 1964 and 1975, Margaret Laurence wrote not only her Manawaka cycle, but also this collection of essays chronicling her travels and revealing how they inspired her fiction. Nora Foster Stovel's new introduction explores how Laurence's experiences in Somalia, Nigeria, Greece, Egypt, England and Scotland influenced and informed her Canadian fiction. ... Read more

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A world spanning travel adventure
Edited and with an Introduction by Nora Foster Stovel for this University of Albert Press edition, Heart Of A Stranger was originally published in 1976, and is an absorbing travelogue of Margaret Laurence's one-woman global journey, a world spanning travel adventure which brought her new perspectives both on faraway lands such as Africa as well as her cherished home of Canada. Containing threads of autobiography and life journey, as well as fascinating views of diverse cultures, Heart Of A Stranger is a most memorable and enjoyable read which is especially recommended to the attention of travelogue enthusiasts. ... Read more

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The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country’s new freedom.

With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brilliantly in capturing the atmosphere of a continent and of individual men and women struggling for survival under the impact of the wind of change. ... Read more

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Jen and Tod Bean live on a farm. At the end of every day they go out to the fields to bring the family's six cows home.

One day they discover the gate has been left open and the cows have escaped. They're nowhere to be seen. Jen and Tod know they must find the cows, even if it means following them into the woods to return them to the pasture.

In this classic tale, Margaret Laurence recounts how Jen and Tod overcome their fear of the dark woods to bring the cows home at last. ... Read more

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Highly Recommended
RACHEL, RACHEL is one of the best books I've ever read.

It portrays the inner life of a single woman in her thirties, an "old maid."Her siblings have grown up, married, had children, and moved away from Manawaka, the small town in Canada where the book takes place.Rachel has not yet found a husband, and thus, by default, she is the unwilling caretaker for her mother, who is frail and needy.

Rachel is needy, too.She would like to find love, a husband of her own, and children, but she does not know how to escape the ties that bind her to the small town and her unrewarding life.Margaret Laurence lets us feel her frustration and longing.

Unexpectedly, Rachel is faced with a challenge, and with it a chance for growth and fulfillment.It is interesting to find out how Rachel meets this challenge.

If you haven't ever been Rachel, you probably know someone like her.

For people who love fine, expressive writing and sensitive delination of character, you will not be disappointed. ... Read more

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It is the late 1960s, and Hagar Shipley’s days are drawing to an end. In the course of an afternoon, Hagar’s life unfolds: her childhood in a small prairie town, her Scottish immigrant father, the tumultuous relationship with her now-estranged husband, her sons, and their partners. Based on the novel by Margaret Lawrence.

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By the 1970s, Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy had become two of the literary icons of Canada. Although both were natives of Manitoba, they never had met. In 1976 Laurence and Roy began this seven-year correspondence in English, when both were at the height of their powers as writers.

In these lovely and intimate letters, two great Canadian writers discuss everything from their common prairie backgrounds to current politics and censorship. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Association for Canadian Studies in the United States on March 22, 1996. The length of the article is 1395 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "That house in Manawaka": Margaret Laurence's "A bird in the house".
Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1996
Publisher: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Volume: 26Issue: 1Page: 135-7

Article Type: Book Review

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