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This cycle of poems is perhaps the most memorable evocation in modern Canadian literature of the myth of the wilderness, the immigrant experience, and the alienating and schizophrenic effects of th

When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her.

Set in the sinister monastery of The Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest.

After appearing to the author, whose plane has been forced down in the African desert, the little prince freely shares his experiences with the fascinated pilot, then disappears as mysteriously as

For a generation or more there have been few books that brought together in accessible form the raw materials of Canadian history.

This book takes a look at Chinese art within a variety of contexts—archeological, cultural, historical, social, and ritual/religious.