Lunatic Villas
Author: Marian Engel
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780771093432
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Author: Marian Engel
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780771093432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marian Engel
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780140096590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Megan Mayhew Bergman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1451643357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a prizewinning young writer whose stories have been anthologized in "The Best American Short Stories" and "New Stories from the South" comes a heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world.
Author: Rachilde
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1603292551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.
Author: Marian Engel
Publisher: House of Anansi
Published: 2014-08-15
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 1770898514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1970, The Honeyman Festival chronicles one night in the life of Minn Burge, a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between affection for her family and the need for a life in which impulse and intelligence can once again find play. Pregnant with her fourth child, and unable to take refuge in facile resolutions, Minn interrogates her life with a razor-edge passion in which many readers will find they too are involved. This groundbreaking novel by one of Canada’s most beloved novelists is now available in a beautifully packaged A List edition, featuring an introduction by novelist and short story writer Caroline Adderson.
Author: Marian Engel
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780802036872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdmired by a generation of Canadian authors and critics, Marian Engel was a writer's writer. This compilation offers an incomparable view into Canadian literature from 1965 to Engel's early death in 1985.
Author: Howard Engel
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1504031490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA grisly tour of hangings, electrocutions, beheadings—and other state-sanctioned deaths that are part of the long history of the death penalty. In Lord High Executioner, award-winning writer Howard Engel traces the traditions of capital punishment from medieval England and early Canada to the present-day United States. Throughout “civilized” history, executioners employed on behalf of the kingdom, republic, or dictatorship have beheaded, chopped, stabbed, choked, gassed, electrocuted, or beaten criminals to death—and Engel doesn’t shy away from the gritty details of the executioner’s lifestyle, focusing on the paragons, buffoons, and sadists of the dark profession. Packed with all-too-true stories, from hapless hangings to butchered beheadings, this historically accurate look at the executioner’s gruesome work makes for a thoroughly gripping read.
Author: Christl Verduyn
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 0889205698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarian Engel emerged as a writer during that period in Canada when nationalism increased and “new feminism” dawned. Although she is recognized as a distinguished woman of letters, she has not been widely studied; consequently we know relatively little about her and her craft. The material collected in Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “Ah, mon cahier, écoute...” is a major step in redressing that neglect. Extracts carefully chosen by Christl Verduyn from Marian Engel’s forty-nine notebooks — notebooks Engel began in the late 1940s and which she maintained until her death in 1985 — track Engel’s creative development, illustrate her commitment to the craft of writing and document her growth as a major Canadian writer. The notebooks also portray Engel’s surprising leaps of logic, her fascination with the bizarre, the eclecticism of her reading and the depth and variety of her thinking. Finally, they present moving documentation of a woman facing cancer and early death. Christl Verduyn’s illuminating introductory discussions to each of the notebooks unobtrusively guide us in the reading of these sometimes difficult writings. Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “Ah, mon cahier, écoute...” leaves readers with a vivid sense of Canadian culture during the 1960s and 1970s. It provides insight into the literary life of one of Canada’s significant woman writers, including her connections with other Canadian writers, and will be of special interest to scholars working in the field of literature.
Author: Jason Schwartz
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1939293227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. This is a literary album of a pre-Internet world, focused on physical elements — all of which are tools for either violence or sustenance. Knives, old iron gates, antique houses in flames; Biblical citations, blood and a history of the American bed: the unsettling, half-perceived images, and their precise but alien manipulation by a master of the language will stay with readers. Its themes are familiar — violence, betrayal, failure — its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful.
Author: Hugh MacLennan
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 0776604031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA student at McGill in the mid-1950s, Marian Engel wrote her M.A. thesis under the direction of Hugh MacLennan. Their work together became the basis of a correspondence, the MacLennan half of which survives and is detailed here. Both personal and professional in nature, MacLennan's letters to Engel provide fascinating insights into his life's pursuit of writing and offer another glimpse of the author of Two Solitudes.