The Race And Other Stories By Sinclair Ross

Author : Sinclair Ross
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780776617237

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Heralded as a prairie writer and best known for As For Me and My House and for his stories of the bleak dust bowl Prairies of the Great Depression, Sinclair Ross has also written of urban life and, briefly, of army life, as the stories in this collection demonstrate. The Race and Other Stories includes previously uncollected short stories and a chapter from Whir of Gold, here title "The Race," which stands on its own as a short story. Furthermore, "Spike," published in French in Liberté in 1969, appears here for the first time in English. Ross's taut, economical, rhythmic prose reflects the bleak, spare landscape of the prairie. The concerns of his novels are equally evident in his stories: loneliness and alienation, the sense of entrapment, the imaginative and artistic struggle. This collection of stories will be of interest to those who wish to better understand one of Canada's most respected writers and the diversity that can be found in his writings.

Author : Sinclair Ross
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0776643428

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The Race and Other Stories by Sinclair Ross Pdf

Author : Sinclair Ross
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735252882

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As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross Pdf

As For Me and My House is an essential Canadian work--a precise and compelling portrait of our culture, our psyche, and the nature of contemporary art itself, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. In the windswept town of Horizon, an unamed diarist paints a vivid and enthralling picture of prairie life in the Depression era. Atmospheric, intimate, and richly observed, As For Me and My House is a moving meditation on the bittersweet nature of human relationships, on the bonds that tie people together and the undercurrents of feeling that can tear them apart. It is one of Canada's great novels and a landmark in modern fiction.

Author : Sinclair Ross
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780771099960

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The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories by Sinclair Ross Pdf

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.

Author : Sinclair Ross
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888643543

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Sawbones Memorial by Sinclair Ross Pdf

On the eve of his retirement, Doctor "Sawbones" Hunter reflects on his career as a small-town physician. Introduction by Ken Mitchell.

Author : Sinclair Ross
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735252899

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The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories by Sinclair Ross Pdf

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.

Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131272

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The Canadian Short Story by Reingard M. Nischik Pdf

Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's flagship genre. It continues to attract the country's most accomplished and innovative writers today, among them Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, and many others. Yet in contrast to the stature and popularity of the genre and the writers who partake in it, surprisingly little literary criticism and theory has been devoted to the Canadian short story. This collection redresses that imbalance by providing the first collection of critical interpretations of a range of thirty well-known and often-anthologized Canadian short stories from the genre's beginnings through the twentieth century. A historical survey of the genre introduces the volume and a timeline comparing the genre's development in Canada, the US, and Great Britain via representative examples completes it. The collection is geared both to specialists in and to students of Canadian literature. For the latter it is of particular benefit that the volume provides not only a collection of interpretations, but a comprehensive introduction to the history of the Canadian short story. Reingard M. Nischik is professor and chair of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9991350217

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Race and Other Stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sinclair Ross
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771094132

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The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories by Sinclair Ross Pdf

"Ross' style is always beautifully matched to his material - spare, lean, honest, no gimmicks, and yet in its very simplicity setting up continuing echoes in the mind." - Margaret Laurence --Book Jacket.

Author : Sinclair Ross
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735252882

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As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross Pdf

As For Me and My House is an essential Canadian work--a precise and compelling portrait of our culture, our psyche, and the nature of contemporary art itself, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. In the windswept town of Horizon, an unamed diarist paints a vivid and enthralling picture of prairie life in the Depression era. Atmospheric, intimate, and richly observed, As For Me and My House is a moving meditation on the bittersweet nature of human relationships, on the bonds that tie people together and the undercurrents of feeling that can tear them apart. It is one of Canada's great novels and a landmark in modern fiction.

Author : David Stouck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802043887

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As for Sinclair Ross by David Stouck Pdf

Sinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as "The Lamp at Noon" and "The Painted Door," is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master at portraying the hardships and harsh beauty of the Prairies during the Great Depression, Ross nevertheless received only modest attention from the public during his lifetime. His reluctance to give readings or interviews further contributed to this faint public perception of the man. In As for Sinclair Ross, David Stouck tells the story of a lonely childhood in rural Saskatchewan, of a long and unrewarding career in a bank, and of many failed attempts to be published and to find an audience. The book also tells the story of a man who fell in love with both men and women and who wrote from a position outside any single definition of gender and sexuality. Stouck's biography draws on archival records and on insights gathered during an acquaintance late in Ross's life to illuminate this difficult author, describing in detail the struggles of a gifted artist living in an inhospitable time and place. Stouck argues that when Ross was writing about prairie farmers and small towns, he wanted his readers to see the kind of society they were creating, to feel uncomfortable with religion as coercive rhetoric, prejudices based on race and ethnicity, and rigid notions of gender. As for Sinclair Ross is the story of a remarkable writer whose works continue to challenge us and are rightly considered classics of Canadian literature.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241310670

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor Doremus Jessup can't believe it will last - but is he right? This cautionary tale of liberal complacency in the face of populist tyranny shows it really can happen here.

Author : John Moss
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780776603292

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From the Heart of the Heartland by John Moss Pdf

This volume gathers together authors and critics to reappraise the legacy of Sinclair Ross. Beyond Ross' major novel As For Me and My House, the contributors reestablish the value of his other writings in their literary and historical contexts. Published in English.

Author : Dan Kennedy
Publisher : Toronto: McClelland and Stewart
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001662207

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Recollections of an Assiniboine Chief by Dan Kennedy Pdf

When a man lives to be a hundred he has many tales to tell. When that man is Dan Kennedy of the Carry the Kettle First Nation in Saskatchewan, his hundred-year-old memories and personal recollections are a part of Canada's heritage. As Chief Ochankugahe he witnessed the final days of Pre-Contact Assiniboine Sioux society, the turmoil of the Indian Wars, Ghost Dance, the Homestead Era and the Residential Schools. Educated at St. Boniface College, the chief is an articulate, reflective commentator as well as an eye-witness to history. Despite the extreme human trials covered in the book, including famine and war, the Chief uses humour and compassion and is writes without rancour.

Author : Dan Brown
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307741905

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The lost symbol by Dan Brown Pdf

Robert Langdon, while at the U.S. Capital Building, finds an object encoded with five symbols, which is an ancient invitation to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's belived mentor, Peter Solomon, is kidnapped, he realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations - all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.