wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Delicious Mirth: The Life and Times of James McCarroll
ISBN: 9780773554672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Recovering the lyrical voice and remarkable literary life of James McCarroll, Canada's Irish-born poet and humorist.
Recovering the lyrical voice and remarkable literary life of James McCarroll, Canada's Irish-born poet and humorist.
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189,61 zł |
Roughing It in the Bush
ISBN: 9780393926675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A thorough "Backgrounds" section includes images, a map, contemporary reviews ofRoughing It, and letters written by Moodie to her husband during the winter of 1839, at which time he was serving a military appointment in the Victoria District and she and her children were facing life-threatening illnesses. "Criticism" contains ten essays by leading Canadian scholars and authors, among them Margaret Atwood, Carl Ballstadt, D. M. R. Bentley, Susan Glickman, and Michael Peterman A Chronology of Susanna Moodie's life and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
A thorough "Backgrounds" section includes images, a map, contemporary reviews ofRoughing It, and letters written by Moodie to her husband dur...
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66,48 zł |
Forest and Other Gleanings: The Fugitive Writings of Catharine Parr Traill
ISBN: 9780776603919 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Forest and other Gleanings reclaims for the contemporary reader a number of stories and sketches written by Catharine Parr Traill after her emigration to Canada in 1832. While most pieces collected here appeared in magazines in Britain, the United States, and Canada, a few have been drawn from archival holdings and make their first appearance here. This collection seeks, as it were, to complete her aspirations and to offer readers interested in Traill and 19th-century Upper Canada a "gleaning" of her better sketches and stories.
Forest and other Gleanings reclaims for the contemporary reader a number of stories and sketches written by Catharine Parr Traill after her emi...
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83,11 zł |
The Backwoods of Canada
ISBN: 9780886293062 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1802-1899) emigrated from Great Britain to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband Thomas Traill, a retired officer. The Blackwoods of Canada (1836), Catharine's epistolary narrative based on her experiences in the country north of Peterborough in the years immediately following her arrival in North America, is an important record of nineteenth-century pioneering and a rich personal memoir of a woman. It has become a foundation work of Canadian literature.
Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1802-1899) emigrated from Great Britain to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband Thomas Traill, a retired officer. T...
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184,34 zł |
I Bless You in My Heart: Selected Correspondence of Catharine Parr Traill
ISBN: 9781442651616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Though her life was largely circumscribed by domesticity and poverty both in England and in Canada, Catharine Parr Traill's interests, experiences, and contacts were broad and various. Her contribution to our knowledge of nineteenth-century Canadian life, from a literary, historical, and scientific perspective, was significant. Chosen from her nearly 500 extant letters, the 136 presented here vividly reflect typical aspects of social and family life, attachments to the Old World, health and medical conditions, travel, religious faith and practice, the stresses of settlement in... Though her life was largely circumscribed by domesticity and poverty both in England and in Canada, Catharine Parr Traill's interests, experiences,... |
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184,34 zł |