Author: Thomas Chandler HaliburtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Sam Slick Anthology
Author: Thomas Chandler HaliburtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Inventing Sam Slick
Author: Richard A. DaviesPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442658088
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton's own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. In the public imagination, however, he remained linked with Sam Slick. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia.
The Universal Anthology
Author: Richard GarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthologies
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature, with biographical and explanatory notes, ed. by R. Garnett, L. Vallée, A. Brandl. Imperial ed
Author: Richard GarnettThe Sam Gunn Omnibus
Author: Ben BovaPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765316202
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Now in paperback, SF master Ben Bova's tales of the irrepressible Sam Gunn
The Clockmaker
Author: Thomas Chandler HaliburtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752355999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The Universal Anthology
Author: Varieties of English
Author: Alexander BergsPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110525046
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical developments of more than a dozen varieties of English.
Read Canadian
Author: Robert FulfordPublisher: Lorimer
ISBN: 9780888620187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Soon after its publication in 1972, Read Canadian was acclaimed as a seminal guide to books by and about Canadians. It remains a landmark guide to the headwaters of Canadian society, its history and literature. It is an absorbing, helpful guide to the books that have been written (to the time of publication) about this country, its people, politics, history and arts. It also explores the world of Canadian fiction and poetry with distinguished literary critics who discuss the best novels and poetry the country had produced. Read Canadian remains a valuable sourcebook for people who want to learn more about Canadaand Canadian books
Erin's Sons
Author: Terrence M. PunchPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
From the time of the earliest European colonies, there were Irish settlers in the four provinces of Atlantic Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Despite the flow of Irish through Atlantic Canada, the early records of these immigrants are fewer and less informative than those of New England and New York from the same period. "Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853" goes a long way toward rectifying this problem. Author Terrence M. Punch has combed through a wide-ranging and disparate group of sources-including newspaper articles and advertisements, local government documents and census records, church records, burial records, land records, military records, passenger lists, and more-to identify as many of these pioneers as possible and disclose where they came from in the Old Country. These sources often contain details that cannot be found in Irish records, where few census returns survived from before 1901, and where Catholic records began a generation or more after their counterparts in Atlantic Canada.