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    John Metcalfe the Durutti Column viola-playing master who for years has been a composer and arranger for the likes of U2, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel and Blur, as well as co-founder…

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    John Metcalf was a remarkable man whose achievements defied his physical disability. Born blind, he went on to become one of the most celebrated road builders of his time. This…

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    John Metcalf

    John Metcalf was a remarkable man whose achievements defied his physical disability. Born blind, he went on to become one of the most celebrated road builders of his time. This…

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    The Life of John Metcalf: Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough

    John Metcalf

    Blinded by smallpox at the age of six, John Metcalf (1717-1810), popularly known as ‘Blind Jack of Knaresborough’, nevertheless became one of the eighteenth century’s great road builders. Published in…

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    The Case for Universal Old Age Pensions

    John Metcalfe

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    Carry on Bumping

    A fresh group of writers, critics, booksellers, poets and novelists to heap scorn and vilification on Canadian icons such as Margaret Atwood, stuffy academics, feminist poets, Elspeth Cameron, contemporary literary…

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    Freedom from Culture: Selected Essays, 198292

    John Metcalf

    Presenting 11 polished and incisive essays on Canadian literature and culture, this collection explores the dangers of state subsidy, anthologizing, the inflation of reputations by academics desperate to invent new…

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    Bumper Book

    When Kicking Against the Pricks was published in 1982, readers across Canada were angered, surprised, titillated, and gratified. Finally, a major Canadian author had spoken his mind about Canadian literature…

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    Medals and Prizes

    John Metcalf

    ‘John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in Canada. He comes as close to the baffling, painful comedy of human experience as a writer can…

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    T'Strike

    John Metcalfe

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    Bunderley Boggard and Other Plays

    John Metcalfe

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    Vital Signs: The Collected Novellas

    John Metcalf

    Alice Munro wrote that Metcalf comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer can get.

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    The Canadian Short Story

    John Metcalf

    No other person has done more to celebrate and encourage the short story in Canada than John Metcalf. For more than five decades he has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist…

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    The Museum at the End of the World

    John Metcalf

    Humorous but deeply felt stories spanning the life-long career of a writer, painting a memorable portrait of the literary life.

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    Best Canadian Stories

    A annual collection of the best Canadian short stories selected by legendary editor and champion of short fiction, John Metcalf.

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    Best Canadian Stories

    A annual collection of the best Canadian short stories selected by legendary editor and champion of short fiction, John Metcalf.

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    Finding Again the World: Selected Stories

    John Metcalf

    The collected stories of one of the greatest masters and champions of the short story form.

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    Temerity & Gall

    John Metcalf

    Metcalf’s short story collections have received an NYTBR Notable Book of the Year, starred reviews and raves in Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. Museum at the End of the World, his…

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    An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir

    John Metcalf

    The memoir of the man who has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country. Alice Munro

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    The Feasting Dead (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    John Metcalfe

    ‘A writer of subtle, finely crafted supernatural tales.’ - T.E.D. Klein ‘[H]is stories … build up a unique sense of unease.’ - Brian Stableford

    ‘[T]ense, cryptic … brooding supernaturalism ……

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    Shut Up He Explained

    John Metcalf

    John Metcalf’s Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition. Part memoir, part travelogue, part criticism – wholly Metcalf – it is thoughtful, engaged, contentious and often very funny…

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    Going Down Slow

    John Metcalf

    A satirical novel about one man’s attempt to maintain sanity and sense of humour in the face of mounting odds.

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    The life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough

    John Metcalf

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    Modern Fortran Explained

    Mr Michael Metcalf, Dr John Reid, Mr Malcolm Cohen, Dr Reinhold Bader

    This new edition of Modern Fortran Explained provides a clear and thorough description of the latest version of Fortran, written by experts in the field with the intention that it…

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    The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough

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    This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

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    Roger Ludlow, The Colonial Lawmaker

    John Metcalf Taylor

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    Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf

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    University Of Virginia Studies V1. Contributing Authors Include Fredson T. Bowers, Arthur Kyle Davis Jr., Atcheson L. Hench, And Many Others.

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    Roger Ludlow, The Colonial Lawmaker

    John Metcalf Taylor

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    The Life and Times of Captain John Glen Metcalf and the Buffalo Soldiers

    John Glenn Barry Metcalf

    Captain John Glen Metcalf is a symbolic figure who represents the embodiment of the buffalo soldier and the dues that the black man paid for acceptance as a US citizen…

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    The Porcupine’s Quill Reader

    Contains 20 short stories and assorted gossipy anecdotes and photographs of the authors giving readings and socializing.

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    Writers Talking

    Gives readers a chance to listen in: Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael Winter on writing Newfoundland, and K D Miller on being an actor who writes. This…

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    Light Shining Out of Darkness: And Other Stories

    Hugh Hood

    Hugh Hood’s best short fiction: exploring moral order and human behavior, and exposing the violent emotions under placid surfaces.

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    Hitting the Charts

    Leon Rooke

    Hitting the Charts brings back into print stories that go as far back as 1980.

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    Library of Southern Literature: Compiled Under the Direct Supervision of Southern Men of Letters, Volume 8

    John Calvin Metcalf

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    A Great Historic Peerage, the Earldom of Wiltes.

    John Henry Metcalf

    The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…

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    The Reformation Resuscitated: The Church of Christ Described, the Church of England Reformed (1866)

    John James Metcalfe

    A Society Proposed For The Production And Distribution Of Wealth, And For The Education, Moral And Industrial Training, And Permanent Employment Of All Persons In Need Of The Benefits To…

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    Library of Southern Literature: Compiled Under the Direct Supervision of Southern Men of Letters, Volume 13

    John Calvin Metcalf

    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

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    De Quincey: A Portrait

    John Calvin Metcalf

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    Library of Southern Literature: Compiled Under the Direct Supervision of Southern Men of Letters, Volume 7

    John Calvin Metcalf

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

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    The Reformation Resuscitated: The Church of Christ Described, the Church of England Reformed (1866)

    John James Metcalfe

    A Society Proposed For The Production And Distribution Of Wealth, And For The Education, Moral And Industrial Training, And Permanent Employment Of All Persons In Need Of The Benefits To…

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    Library of Southern Literature: Compiled Under the Direct Supervision of Southern Men of Letters, Volume 5

    John Calvin Metcalf

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    Library of Southern Literature: Compiled Under the Direct Supervision of Southern Men of Letters, Volume 2

    John Calvin Metcalf

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