When Margaret Laurence set out for Somaliland with her engineer husband in 1950, she confronted the difficulty of communication between peoples of vastly different cultures. Yet she came to know the skilled orators, poets and craftsmen of the country, and to share the vision of a people’s struggle for survival in a barren land.The Prophet’s Camel Bell is part travelogue, part autobiography, part celebration of human nature, and essential reading for anyone who has ever bee...

In 1836, Anna Jameson sailed from London, England, to join her husband in Upper Canada, where he was serving as attorney general. Shaking off the mud of Muddy York with mild disdain, young Mrs. Jameson swiftly sallied forth to discover the New World for herself.The best known of all nineteenth century Canadian travel books, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada is Jameson’s wonderfully entertaining account of her adventures, ranging from gleeful observations about th...

These three works, displaying marked differences in purpose, tone, and effect, are all classics of Canadian literary and cultural criticism.John George Bourinot was a man of letters, an Imperialist, and a biculturalist, who was confident of his knowledge of the Canadian identity and felt it to be his public mission to align reality with his own personal vision. Writing in 1893 to the élite represented by the members of the Royal Society, he described his work as ‘a monograph on the...

This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and the specialist researcher.The contributors to this volume are Laurie Ricou, David Jackel, Linda Hutcheon, Philip Stratford, Barry Cameron, Balachandra Rajan, Robert Fothergill, ...

Collects Dynamite's The Adventures of Red Sonja #15-22! The third volume in the best-selling collection featuring the classic Marvel Comics adventures of the She Devil With a Sword! Presenting the definitive and remastered versions of Red Sonja #8 through #15, featuring the work of Roy Thomas and Frank Thorne, the classic tales are collected here for the very first time! Part of the Red Sonja 35th Anniversary Event.

The third and final volume in Dynamite Entertainment's Red Sonja Art Edition line dedicated to fantasy illustration's shining star, Frank Thorne! The defining She-Devil artist shares his original storyboards from the issue #7 through #11 of the acclaimed 1970s Red Sonja comic book series. Scanned in high-resolution color and printed at original size, this gorgeous hardcover collection preserves every detail of the artist's meticulous skill and hard work, while simultaneously presenting a c...

Collects Dynamite's The Adventures of Red Sonja #15-22!The third volume in the best-selling collection featuring the classic Marvel Comics adventures of the She Devil With a Sword! Presenting the definitive and remastered versions of Red Sonja #8 through #15, featuring the work of Roy Thomas and Frank Thorne, the classic tales are collected here for the very first time! Part of the Red Sonja 35th Anniversary Event.

In his quintessential novel, "Tom Brown at Rugby," Thomas Hughes masterfully intertwines the themes of boyhood, camaraderie, and moral development within the setting of the prestigious Rugby School. Written in an engaging narrative style that blends sentimental realism with vivid characterizations, the book serves as both a coming-of-age story and a critique of Victorian educational practices. Inspired by Hughes' own experiences at Rugby, the story illustrates the importance of character-b...

Three children go on a polar expedition in this thrilling adventure story for newly independent readers that blurs realism and imagination.Ida, Max, and Jack go to the creek one winter's day. They play on an ice floe then find themselves floating away—all the way to the polar ice, with just a box, a branch, and some sandwiches."You probably don't think it's true, and we didn't either, not even while it was happening..."They find an old hut,...

The empirical starting point for anyone who wants to understand political cleavages in the democratic world, based on a unique dataset covering fifty countries since WWII.Who votes for whom and why? Why has growing inequality in many parts of the world not led to renewed class-based conflicts, seeming instead to have come with the emergence of new divides over identity and integration? News analysts, scholars, and citizens interested in exploring those questions in...

Following-up on the best-selling, and soon to be sold out Volume 1, celebrate fantasy illustration's shining star with Frank Thorne's second Red Sonja Art Edition! The consummate She-Devil artist shares his original storyboards from the first six issues of the acclaimed 1977 Red Sonja comic book series. Scanned in high-resolution color and printed at original size, this gorgeous hardcover collection preserves every detail of the artist's meticulous skill and hard work, while simultaneously...

Le Morte D'Arthur Audiobook is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guinevere, the treachery of Morgan Le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table, it magically weaves together adventure, battle, love and enchantment. Le Morte D'Arthur looks back to an idealized Medieval world and is full of wistful, elegiac regret for a ...