Title:
The Oxford book of Canadian short stories : in English / selected by Margaret Atwood & Robert Weaver.
Author:
Atwood, Margaret (Margaret Eleanor), 1939-
Weaver, Robert, 1921-
General Notes:
Originally published: 1986., Originally published: 1986.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Publication Place:
Toronto : Oxford :
ISBN:
0195405978 (pbk)
Subject:
Short stories, Canadian.
Short stories, Canadian (English)
Canadian fiction (English) -- 19th century.
Canadian fiction (English) -- 20th century.
Nouvelles canadiennes-anglaises.
Roman canadien-anglais -- 19e siلecle.
Roman canadien-anglais -- 20e siلecle.
Short stories in English Canadian writers, 1880-1986 - Anthologies
Contents:
Extradited / Isabella Valancy Crawford -- The idyl of the island / Susie Frances Harrison -- Do seek their meat from God / Charles G. D. Roberts -- The Desjardins / Duncon Campbell Scott -- The marine excursion of the Knights of Pythias / Stephen Leacock -- From Flores / Ethel Wilson -- Last spring they came over / Morley Callaghan -- The wedding gift / Thomas H. Raddall -- The lamp at noon / Sinclair Ross -- One-two-three little Indians / Hugh Garner -- The old woman / Joyce Marshall -- Causation / Helen Weinzweig -- The ice wagon going down the street / Mavis Gallant -- We all begin in a little magazine / Norman Levine -- The loons / Margaret Laurence -- The bully / James Reaney -- Flying a red kite / Hugh Hood -- Dinner along the Amazon / Timothy Findley -- The Peace of Utrecht / Alice Munro -- The summer my grandmother was supposed to die / Mordecai Richler -- Slogans / Jane Rule -- Griff! / Austin C. Clarke -- The day I sat with Jesus on the sundeck and a wind came up and blew my kimono open and He saw my breasts / Gloria Sawai -- Anita's dance / Marian Engel.
The woman who talked to horses / Leon Rooke -- Where is the voice coming from? / Rudy Wiebe -- A short story / George Bowering -- The thrill of the grass / W. P. Kinsella -- Kill day on the government wharf / Audrey Thomas -- The black queen / Barry Callaghan -- By the river / Jack Hodgins -- The sin eater / Margaret Atwood -- Bloodflowers / W. D. Valgardson -- A class of new Canadians / Clark Blaise -- The lady from Lucknow / Bharati Mukherjee -- Cape Breton is the thought control centre of Canada / Ray Smith -- The Eiffel Tower in three parts / Matt Cohen -- The wild plum tree / Sandra Birdsell -- Mid-May's eldest child / Edna Alford -- Sociology / Katherine Govier -- Dancing bear / Guy Vanderjaeghe.
Physical Description:
xix, 436 p. ;
Publication Date:
c1988.
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