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Print Price: $24.50

Format:
Paperback
440 pp.
5.25" x 8.25"

ISBN-13:
9780195401318

Publication date:
October 1966

Imprint: OUP Canada

Canadian Short Stories

First Series

Edited by Robert Weaver
Preface by William Toye

Series : The Wynford Project

Originally issued as an Oxford World's Classic, this groundbreaking book remains one of the finest anthologies of Canadian short fiction ever published, its selections as readable and relevant as they were back in 1960 when first chosen by editor Robert Weaver. Among the 27 stories included here are enduring classics by such early giants of Canadian literature as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Sinclair Ross; works by writers like Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, and Mavis Gallant, then viewed as relative newcomers, now firmly ensconced in the pantheon of Canadian letters; and stories by Ethel Wilson, Hugh Garner, Joyce Marshall, and others less well-known to twenty-first century readers but whose stories still grip the imagination and tell us something about our country and ourselves.

Canadian Short Stories is a Wynford book -- one of a series of titles representing significant milestones in Canadian literature, thought, and scholarship.

William E. Toye: Canadian Short Stories, Fifty Years Later
Robert Weaver: Introduction
E.W. Thompson (1849-1924): The Privilige of the Limits
Sir Charles G.D.Roberts (1860-1943): Strayed
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947): Paul Farlotte
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944): The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias
Frederick Philip Gove (1871-1948): Snow
Ethel Wilson (b. 1890): Mrs. Golightly and the First Convention
Ringuet (b. 1895): The Heritage
Raymond Knister (1900-32): Mist-Green Oats
Thomas H. Raddall (b. 1903): Blind MacNair
Morley Callaghan (b. 1903): Last Spring They Came Over
Morley Callaghan (b. 1903): A Sick Call
Leo Kennedy (b. 1907): A Priest in the Family
Sinclair Ross (b. 1908): The Painted Door
Ralph Gustafson (b. 1909): The Pigeon
Malcolm Lowry (1909-57): The Bravest Boat
Irving Layton (b. 1912): Vacation in La Voiselle
Hugh Garner (b. 1913): One, Two, Three Little Indians
Joyce Marshall (b. 1913): The Old Woman
W.O. Mitchell (b. 1914): The Owl and the Bens
P.K. Page (b. 1916): The Green Bird
Anne Hébert (b. 1916): The House on the Esplanade
Roger Lemelin (b. 1919): The Stations of the Cross
Mavis Gallant (b. 1922): The Legacy
James Reaney (b. 1926): The Bully
Douglas Spettigue (b. 1930): The Haying
Alice Munro (b. 1931): The Time of Death
Mordecai Richler (b. 1931): Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson's Daughter Bella
The Life and Times of OWC 573: An Historical Note from the Publisher

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Robert Weaver worked as a program organizer and producer for CBC radio from 1948 to 1985, and in that role helped bring to notice such writers as Alice Munro and Mordecai Richler. A prolific editor of anthologies, he was also a driving force behind the well-known literary magazine The Tamarack Review.

William Toye, who has contributed a new preface to this printing of Canadian Short Stories, was one of twentieth-century Canadian book publishing's formative figures. He retired in 1991 after more than forty years with Oxford University Press, but continues to write and edit into his ninth decade. His current project is revising the acclaimed Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.

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Anthology of Canadian short fiction including such authors as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, Alice Munro, and Mordecai Richler.
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