Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen.
From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa.
When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, This...
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The Fire-Dwellers
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-375-1 (1-55199-375-9)
April 30, 2010 | $19.95
Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past.
The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and...
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-375-1 (1-55199-375-9)
April 30, 2010 | $19.95
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Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past.
The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and...
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trade paperback.
A Jest of God
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-376-8 (1-55199-376-7)
April 30, 2010 | $19.95
In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.
Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love...
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-376-8 (1-55199-376-7)
April 30, 2010 | $19.95
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In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.
Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love...
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A Bird in the House
eBook | 200 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-4625-4 (0-7710-4625-1)
January 26, 2010 | $18.95
One of Canada’s most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up.
In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod – a world of scrub-oak, willow...
eBook | 200 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-4625-4 (0-7710-4625-1)
January 26, 2010 | $18.95
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One of Canada’s most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up.
In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod – a world of scrub-oak, willow...
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A Bird in the House
Trade Paperback | 216 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-4626-1 (0-7710-4626-X)
January 26, 2010 | $18.95
One of Canada’s most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up.
In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod – a world of scrub-oak, willow...
Trade Paperback | 216 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-4626-1 (0-7710-4626-X)
January 26, 2010 | $18.95
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One of Canada’s most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up.
In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod – a world of scrub-oak, willow...
The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9413-2 (0-7710-9413-2)
January 26, 2010 | $17.95
Sinclair Ross’ 1941 novel As For Me and My House is a masterpiece of Canadian literature, a stunning evocation of the Prairies and their inhabitants during the Depression of the Thirties. With The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories, an original New Canadian Library collection, Ross reveals further dimensions of his...
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9413-2 (0-7710-9413-2)
January 26, 2010 | $17.95
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Sinclair Ross’ 1941 novel As For Me and My House is a masterpiece of Canadian literature, a stunning evocation of the Prairies and their inhabitants during the Depression of the Thirties. With The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories, an original New Canadian Library collection, Ross reveals further dimensions of his...
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The Prophet's Camel Bell
eBook | 272 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-4628-5 (0-7710-4628-6)
January 5, 2010 | $21.95
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...
eBook | 272 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-4628-5 (0-7710-4628-6)
January 5, 2010 | $21.95
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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...
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trade paperback.
The Prophet's Camel Bell
Trade Paperback | 312 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-4629-2 (0-7710-4629-4)
January 5, 2010 | $21.95
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...
Trade Paperback | 312 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-4629-2 (0-7710-4629-4)
January 5, 2010 | $21.95
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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...
This Side Jordan
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9386-9 (0-7710-9386-1)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
In 1957, the British colony of the Gold Coast broke free to become the independent nation of Ghana. Margaret Laurence’s first novel, This Side Jordan, recreates that colour-drenched world: a place where men and women struggle with self-betrayal, self-discovery, and the dawning of political pride.
This Side Jordan transcends the traditional limits...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9386-9 (0-7710-9386-1)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
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In 1957, the British colony of the Gold Coast broke free to become the independent nation of Ghana. Margaret Laurence’s first novel, This Side Jordan, recreates that colour-drenched world: a place where men and women struggle with self-betrayal, self-discovery, and the dawning of political pride.
This Side Jordan transcends the traditional limits...
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eBook.
This Side Jordan
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-299-0 (1-55199-299-X)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
In 1957, the British colony of the Gold Coast broke free to become the independent nation of Ghana. Margaret Laurence’s first novel, This Side Jordan, recreates that colour-drenched world: a place where men and women struggle with self-betrayal, self-discovery, and the dawning of political pride.
This Side Jordan transcends the traditional limits...
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-299-0 (1-55199-299-X)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
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In 1957, the British colony of the Gold Coast broke free to become the independent nation of Ghana. Margaret Laurence’s first novel, This Side Jordan, recreates that colour-drenched world: a place where men and women struggle with self-betrayal, self-discovery, and the dawning of political pride.
This Side Jordan transcends the traditional limits...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Fire-Dwellers
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9377-7 (0-7710-9377-2)
December 1, 2008 | $19.95
Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past.
The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9377-7 (0-7710-9377-2)
December 1, 2008 | $19.95
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Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past.
The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and...
Also available as an
eBook.
A Jest of God
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9378-4 (0-7710-9378-0)
December 1, 2008 | $19.95
In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.
Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9378-4 (0-7710-9378-0)
December 1, 2008 | $19.95
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In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.
Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love...
The Diviners
eBook | 560 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Classics
978-1-55199-243-3 (1-55199-243-4)
November 19, 2008 | $22.95
The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between...
eBook | 560 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Classics
978-1-55199-243-3 (1-55199-243-4)
November 19, 2008 | $22.95
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The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Crackpot
Trade Paperback | 504 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-8886-5 (0-7710-8886-8)
January 29, 2008 | $25.95
Hoda, the protagonist of Crackpot, is one of the most captivating characters in Canadian fiction. Graduating from a tumultuous childhood to a life of prostitution, she becomes a legend in her neighbourhood, a canny and ingenious woman, generous, intuitive, and exuding a wholesome lust for life.
Resonant with myth and superstition, this...
Written by Adele Wiseman and Margaret Laurence
Trade Paperback | 504 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-8886-5 (0-7710-8886-8)
January 29, 2008 | $25.95
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Hoda, the protagonist of Crackpot, is one of the most captivating characters in Canadian fiction. Graduating from a tumultuous childhood to a life of prostitution, she becomes a legend in her neighbourhood, a canny and ingenious woman, generous, intuitive, and exuding a wholesome lust for life.
Resonant with myth and superstition, this...
The Tomorrow-Tamer
Trade Paperback | 276 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-4631-5 (0-7710-4631-6)
January 29, 2008 | $19.95
The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying...
Trade Paperback | 276 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-4631-5 (0-7710-4631-6)
January 29, 2008 | $19.95
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The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying...
Crackpot
eBook | 400 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-8885-8 (0-7710-8885-X)
January 1, 2008 | $25.95
Hoda, the protagonist of Crackpot, is one of the most captivating characters in Canadian fiction. Graduating from a tumultuous childhood to a life of prostitution, she becomes a legend in her neighbourhood, a canny and ingenious woman, generous, intuitive, and exuding a wholesome lust for life.
Resonant with myth and superstition, this...
eBook | 400 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-8885-8 (0-7710-8885-X)
January 1, 2008 | $25.95
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Hoda, the protagonist of Crackpot, is one of the most captivating characters in Canadian fiction. Graduating from a tumultuous childhood to a life of prostitution, she becomes a legend in her neighbourhood, a canny and ingenious woman, generous, intuitive, and exuding a wholesome lust for life.
Resonant with myth and superstition, this...
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
