Download or read book Combat Journal for Place D Armes a Personal Narrative written by Scott Symons and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Combat Journal of Place D Armes written by Scott Symons and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1967 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents both a study of the emergence of a character's true self through the author's homosexual experiences and his examination of Canadian, and especially French-Canadian, culture and traditions.
Download or read book Combat Journal for Place d Armes written by Scott Symons and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967, Combat Journal for Place d'Armes, set in Montreal, was initially met with shock and anger by most reviewers. As D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover once had, it challenged the attitudes and morals held by most people in its time regarding life and literature. Despite this initial reaction, the novel earned author Scott Symons the Beta Sigma Phi Best First Canadian Novel Award and went on to be regarded as one of the "most important statements about Canadian imaginative life in the 1960s." Both a study of the emergence of a character's true self through his homosexual experiences and his critical examination of Canadian, and especially French-Canadian, culture and traditions, Place d'Armes was named one of the top hundred most important books in Canadian history. Peter Buitenhuis, the late autho ran dformer head of Simon Fraser University's English department, has written that Symon's novel is "a defiant assault on the Canadian Bourgeois mentality" that "celebrates human sexuality and spirtuality with all the gusto that language can command."
Download or read book Queers Were Here written by Robin Ganev and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, Canada has a reputation for being one of the most gay friendly nations on earth, a pioneer in legalizing same-sex marriage and home to enormously popular Pride parades. Yet Canada was not always so hospitable to its gay and lesbian citizens. Homosexuality was only decriminalized in Canada in 1969 and remained socially stigmatized for many years. Queers Were Here will tell personal stories to illuminate the enormous social changes that have transformed sexuality in Canada. A celebration of queer identity, this book will look back in order to look forward. The book will appeal not only to GLBT audiences but also to anyone who wants to re-examine Canada?s history and culture with fresh eyes.
Download or read book In Flanders Fields and Other Poems written by John McCrae and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In Flanders Fields,” the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada’s — and the world’s — best known poems of the Great War. It was written in 1915 by Canadian John McCrae, an artillery man, poet, and medical doctor, upon the death of a friend and fellow soldier during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. This is a faithful reissue of the Canadian first edition of McCrae’s writings, originally issued by his friends in 1919 in his honour and memory. It includes the best of his poetry and selections of his letters from the front lines together with a thoughtful essay of appreciation by his friend and fellow medical officer, Sir Andrew Macphail.
Download or read book Ringing the Changes written by Mazo de la Roche and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare insight into the intimate thoughts of Mazo de la Roche, and the private life she normally kept hidden. The author confesses how strongly she connected with her character Finch Whiteoak, her struggles with wanting to be a boy, and her complicated relationship with her cousin and adoptive sibling, Caroline.
Download or read book Robert W Service written by Robert W. Service and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of Robert W. Service is mostly known through his poems and ballads. Immortalized by his two iconic ballads, "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," he has entered the world's imagination as the Bard of the Yukon. But Service was much more than a chronicler of the Great North. A traveller and adventurer who tried his hand at many occupations, Service left a fascinating set of impressions: the successful literary life in the course of which he produced everything from poems and ballads to fictional romance to thrillers and how to stave off the dreary process of aging. Robert W. Service is a fresh selection of the most interesting and significant works of the author with a biographical introduction and a select bibliography of additional readings.
Download or read book Flying a Red Kite written by Hugh Hood and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian author Hugh Hood’s first collection of short stories.
Download or read book The Regiment written by Farley Mowat and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) was Canada’s most decorated regiment in the Second World War. In The Regiment, Farley Mowat, famed novelist and member of the regiment, movingly recounts the story of the Hasty Ps, telling the story of his fellow soldiers and their vital role in the Allied conquest of Italy.
Download or read book The Town Below written by Roger Lemelin and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestseller in Quebec when it originally appeared, The Town Below has been called the "pioneer novel of working-class Quebec" and exploded, with great controversy, the smothering social and religious strictures prevalent among postwar Québécois.
Download or read book Self Condemned written by Wyndham Lewis and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self Condemned, originally published in 1954, tells the story of Professor Renarding and his wife, Essie, as they find themselves in Momaco, a fictionalized version of Toronto, following Ren resignation as an academic in London, England. Reduced to a position at the second-rate University of Momaco, Rennd Essie suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien city. The novel, a devastating, disturbing satire of life in wartime Canada, explores the difficulty individuals face as they struggle to adapt to new surroundings while preserving their sense of wholeness, as well as the bond that develops between people during a shared experience of isolation. .
Download or read book The Deserter written by Douglas LePan and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2019-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returned from the ravages of war, met with a city that offers him only despair, a young man finds himself caught between two opposing worlds.
Download or read book Pilgrims of the Wild written by Grey Owl and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1935, Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl’s autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist. With his Iroquois wife, Anahereo, Grey Owl set out to protect the environment and the endangered beaver. Powerful in its simplicity, Pilgrims of the Wild tells the story of Grey Owl’s life of happy cohabitation with the wild creatures of nature and the healing powers of what he referred to as "the great Northland" of "Over the Hills and Far Away." A bestseller at the time, Pilgrims of the Wild helped establish Grey Owl’s international reputation as a conservationist. His legacy of warnings against the degradations of nature and the dangers of industry live on, despite the posthumous revelation that he wasn’t, in fact, the First Nations man he claimed to be.
Download or read book The Kindred of the Wild written by Charles G. D. Roberts and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles G.D. Roberts was a distinguished poet and novelist whose claim to fame rests on a series of very popular animal stories. Although not a professional naturalist, Roberts based his stories on observations made during time spent in natural surroundings, experiences that began with his boyhood in New Brunswick.
Download or read book The Men of the Last Frontier written by Grey Owl and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada, and part compendium of animal and First Nations tales and lore. A passionate, compelling appeal for the protection and preservation of the natural environment pervades Grey Owls words and makes his literary debut still ring with great relevance in the 21st century. By the 1920s, Canadas outposts of adventure had been thrust farther and farther north to the remote margins of the country. Lumbermen, miners, and trappers invaded the primeval forests, seizing on natures wealth with soulless efficiency. Grey Owl himself fled before the assault as he witnessed his valleys polluted with sawmills, his hills dug up for hidden treasure, and wildlife, particularly his beloved beavers, exterminated for quick fortunes.
Download or read book The Silence on the Shore written by Hugh Garner and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garners best, most ambitious novel. Truly, in the person of Grace Hill, the landlady of the Toronto rooming house where most of the books events take place, Garner has created a fictional character never to be forgotten. Grace is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist whose sexual release comes from watching wrestling matches at a hockey arena that is a thinly disguised Maple Leaf Gardens. Around Grace orbit her various boarders: alcoholic Gordon Lightfoot; Walter Fowler, an aspiring writer whose marriage has just broken up; Aline Garfield, a fundamentalist Christian grappling with various urges and torments; a Polish refugee woman; and a colourful cast of others whose lives intersect in drama that arises from arbitrary or coincidental encounters. According to scholar John Moss, the book is the best realistic novel of Canadian city life yet to be written.
