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“It is not all of fishing to fish.”

– Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

George Frederick Clarke had an unwavering and well-practiced philosophy of fishing. He never tired of repeating Izaak Walton’s famous saying and he delighted in spelling out exactly what it means.

He begins the story in his previous book, Six Salmon Rivers, and brings it to full expression in Song of the Reel. The pinnacle of feeling to which Song of the Reel rises as it surrounds fishing with the beauty of New...

George Frederick Clarke was a born storyteller. He was once New Brunswick's best-known writer. His short stories contain some of his best writing, but they have been unavailable since they were published in magazines between 1908 and 1938.

The Ghost of Nackawick Portage brings Clarke's stories together for the first time along with the original illustrations. The evocative illustrations alone make this an unusual book; combined with the stories, it has the makings of a Canadian classic.

Clarke had an instinctive command of narrative flow and an ear for vernacular...

Collecting and displaying finely crafted objects was a mark of character among the royals and aristocrats in Early Modern Spain: it ranked with extravagant hospitality as a sign of nobility and with virtue as a token of princely power. Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain explores how the writers of the period shared the same impulse to collect, arrange, and display objects, though in imagined settings, as literary artefacts.

These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature,...

Mary Gluck introduces us to a LukAcs we have never met. Here is LukAcs among his friends, lovers, and peers in those important years before 1918, when he converted to Communism and Marxism at the age of thirty-nine.

Georg LukAcs claimed in later life that his early achievements lacked genuine coherence, being expressions of a vague "romantic anticapitalism" that only found resolution in his conversion to Marxism. By integrating LukAcs with his early generational grouping and making expert use of a new treasure trove of documents from his early years, Gluck demonstrates that...

Six Salmon Rivers is not just for anglers. It is a classic of Canadian life--a luminous account of the author's lifelong love affair with the rivers of New Brunswick and their wilderness landscapes. It is a treasure trove of tales told by old-time guides and real-life stories about backwoods eccentrics, early explorers, and fellow sportsmen.

George Frederick Clarke was a man of broad and passionate interests--writer, archaeologist, environmentalist and lifelong angler. Six Salmon Rivers--and Another is full of thrilling stories of salmon caught and salmon lost on...