by Nellie L. McClung (1996)
First-wave feminist, activist and social reformer, Nellie McClung ranked as one of the most popular Canadian authors and among the liveliest critics of Canada's male-dominated society of the early 1900s. Well ahead of her time, McClung was known as a writer who dared to discuss taboo topics, and for her inimitable humour which rivals that of Stephen Leacock, Canada's best-known humourist. This selection of her best short fiction includes depictions of difficult rural living conditions in Western Canada as well as "consciousness-raising" stories reflecting the undue restrictions on women and the anti-female laws and attitudes of the day. While most were published in U.S. and Canadian magazines between 1906 and 1931, a few of these stories appear here for the first time. In addition, a detailed introduction discusses McClung's life and analyses the themes and stylistic touches of each of the stories making up this unique anthology.
David Ferry
A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil.
Frances K. Judd [pseudonym
"Here is your pay." Kay is dumbfounded as she watches her host, Alice Janey, give a mysterious witchlike woman some money. Kay later learns that Nanna is Miss Janey's clairvoyant and that Nan revealed the location of Miss Janey's missing luggage. Miss Janey has full confidence in Nanna, since her luggage was indeed found in the exact location described by Nanna, but Kay remains suspicious. First, Nanna owns the house in which the luggage is found, and second, the valuable contents of the luggage are missing when the luggage is recovered. Kay believes that Nanna is scheming against Miss Janey, but proving it to Miss Janey will be difficult. How Kay learns the truth about Nanna and helps Miss Janey with an important chemical experiment makes for a thrilling story.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An anthology of nineteenth-century American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems, including in their entirety his books "Nature: Addresses, and Lectures," "Essays: First and Second Series," "Representative Men," and "The Conduct of Life," as well as his volumes of poetry and other essays, addresses, and poems from his manuscripts.
Diane Shore
A heartwarming first Thanksgiving story depicts the celebration of friendship between the Pilgrims and their neighbors, the Indians.