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    Into Africa with Margaret Laurence

    Fiona Sparrow

    Margaret Laurence is best known for her fiction set in Canada. Less well known is the work that resulted from the years she spent in Africa. Northern Somaliland in particular…

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    Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer

    Donez Xiques

    An engaging narrative that contains important findings about Margaret Laurence’s life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and failures of the long apprenticeship. Here, the author demonstrates the…

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    Margaret Laurence’s Epic Imagination

    Paul Comeau

    Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) instinctively turned to the epic mode to create archetypal narratives of loss, exile, and redemption. This title traces the development of Laurence’s voice from its tentative beginnings…

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    Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections

    Highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada’s most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. This title features a collection of essays that explores her body of work as well…

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    Crossing the River: Margaret Laurence

    In Crossing the River, thirteen Canadian and European scholars celebrate the life and work of Margaret Laurence… . all students of Laurence’s art should find this a useful, probing -casebook…

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    Margaret Laurence and Jack Mcclelland, Letters

    An edited, annotated collection of funny, affectionate, and insightful letters between two Canadian literary icons.

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    Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada

    Laura K. Davis

    Bringing together Margaret Laurence’s writing about Africa and Canada, Davis offers a unique contribution to the study of Canadian literature. The book is an original interpretation of Laurence’s work and…

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    A Writer’s Life: The Margaret Laurence Lectures

    The Writers' Trust of Canada

    For anyone who loves great literature – or aspires to write it – this is an essential collection, full of insight, wisdom, humour, and candour from Canada’s most important and…

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    Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada

    Laura K. Davis

    Bringing together Margaret Laurence’s writing about Africa and Canada, Davis offers a unique contribution to the study of Canadian literature. The book is an original interpretation of Laurence’s work and…

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    Atelier, Loose-Leaf Version

    Kim Jansma, Margaret Kassen, Laurence Laurence Denie-Higney

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    Atelier

    Kim Jansma, Margaret Kassen, Laurence Laurence Denie-Higney

    Jansma/Kassen/Denie-Higney's ATELIER, 2nd Edition, is your artistic studio for exploring the world of French language and culture, providing a fusion of online learning tools and engaging class activities and serving…

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    That House in Manawaka: Margaret Laurence’s a Bird in the House

    Margorie Kertzer,Jonathan Kertzer

    A literary exploration of Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House.

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    Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

    Margaret Laurence,Adele Wiseman,John Lennox

    The correspondence between Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman covers a period of 40 years, from 1947-1986, and encompasses the professional and personal developments, accomplishments, disappointments, and satisfactions of that period.

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    Critical Spaces: Margaret Laurence and Janet Frame

    Lorna Irvine (Contributor)

    First major critical study and comparison of two important female writers, the Canadian Margaret Laurence and the New Zealander Janet Frame.

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    Writing Grief: Margaret Laurence and the Work of Mourning

    Christian Riegel

    Margaret Laurence’s much admired Manawaka fiction - The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers, A Bird in the House, and The Diviners; has achieved remarkable recognition for its…

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    Alien Heart: The Life & Work of Margaret Laurence

    Lyall Powers

    Today, almost two decades after her death, Margaret Laurence remains one of Canada’s best-known and most beloved writers. Twice winner Canada’s prestigious Governor General’s Award for fiction, she was, as…

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    A Study Guide for Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

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    The Stone Angel: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

    Margaret Laurence

    Vivid, evocative, moving, The Stone Angel celebrates the triumph of the spirit, and reveals Margaret Laurence at the height of her powers as a writer of extraordinary craft and profound…

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    A Tree for Poverty

    Originally published in a small edition in 1954, A Tree for Poverty was Margaret Laurence’s first published book. In this new edition, Laurence’s collection of Somali poems and stories is…

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    The Diviners

    Margaret Laurence

    The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic.

    This is the powerful story of an…

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    A Bird in the House

    Margaret Laurence

    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…

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    This Side Jordan: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

    Margaret Laurence

    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…

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    The Tomorrow-Tamer: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

    Margaret Laurence

    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…

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    The Prophet’s Camel Bell

    Margaret Laurence

    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…

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    De l'autre ct du Jourdain

    Margaret Laurence

    La premiere traduction francaise du premier roman de Margaret Laurence. Extraordinairement premonitoire, De l'autre cote du Jourdain est encore aujourd'hui d'une etonnante actualite.

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    The Diviners

    Margaret Laurence

    A vivid portrait of a woman coming to terms with life’s disappointments, by one of Canada’s leading novelists.

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    Intimate Strangers: The Letters of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy

    Margaret Laurence,Gabrielle Roy

    The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature. In 1976, when both were at the height of their careers, they began a…

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    Racial, Ethnic, Gender and Class Representations in Margaret Laurence’s Writings

    Andreea Topor-Constantin

    Racial, Ethnic, Gender and Class Representations in Margaret Laurence’s Writings is a study on Canada, Canadian literature and Margaret Laurence’s works in particular, thus addressing various kinds of readership.

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    New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence: Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism

    Greta M. Coger

    Nearly all of Laurence’s works from Africa and Canada are critiqued in this volume. The essays highlight Laurence’s innovative narrative styles, showing how her combinations of oral literary forms and…

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    The Island Motif in the Fiction of L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Other Canadian Women Novelists

    Theodore F. Sheckels

    Islands, both literal and figurative, recur in fiction authored by many prominent Canadian women writers. Using a critical lens based on Northrop Frye and Julia Kristeva, this book closely examines…

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    Frauenrollen in Margaret Laurences Romanen: Weibliche Identitatsentwicklung in The Stone Angel, A Bird in the House und The Diviners

    Sybille Huck

    Fiktion und Realitat sind keine Gegensatze. Vielmehr bilden sie eine Einheit. Das eine existiert ohne das andere nicht. Robert Kroetsch sagte einmal, dass wir keine wahrhaftige Identitat besitzen, bis jemand…

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    The Diviners

    Vern Thiessen, Yvette Nolan

    Considered a masterpiece of Canadian literature, Margaret Laurence's The Diviners is the compelling story of Morag Gunn, a woman who perseveres through challenge after challenge as she attempts to carve…

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    St Laurence in Thanet: Story of a Parish

    Margaret Bolton

    The history of St Laurence in Thanet parish (Kent, England) from 1000-2016 covering the church building, the lives of the clergy and the population and efforts at outreach including schools…

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    Selected Essays in English Literatures: British and Canadian: Jonathan Swift - John Fowles - Margaret Laurence - Margaret Atwood - Di Brandt & Dennis Cooley

    Herbert Zirker

    This collection of essays begins with a reassessment of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, in particular addressing the universal formative impact it keeps exerting on the ‘myth of utopia’ (N. Frye) and…

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    Selected Essays in English Literatures: British and Canadian: Jonathan Swift, John Fowles, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Di Brandt, Dennis Cooley

    Herbert Zirker

    This collection of essays begins with a reassessment of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, in particular addressing the universal formative impact it keeps exerting on the ‘myth of utopia’ (N. Frye) and…

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    Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant: and of Alice Oliphant, his wife

    Margaret Oliphant

    Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant - and of Alice Oliphant, his wife is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the…

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    Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife (1892)

    Margaret Wilson Oliphant

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…

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    Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife (1892)

    Margaret Wilson Oliphant

    This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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    Margaret Tafoya: A Tewa Potter’s Heritage and Legacy

    Mary Ellen,Laurence R. Blair

    Margaret Tafoya’s paramount place in the evolution of Tewa Pueblo pottery in Santa Clara, New Mexico, includes a history of the Pueblo people, Margaret Tafoya’s life, Santa Clara pottery-making techniques…

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    Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, his Wife: Vol. 2

    Margaret Oliphant

    Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, his Wife - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor…

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    Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, his Wife: Vol. 1

    Margaret Oliphant

    Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, his Wife - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor…

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    Memoir of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife, Volume 2

    Mrs Oliphant (Margaret)

    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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    Memoir Of The Life Of Laurence Oliphant and Of Alice Oliphant, His Wife

    Margaret Wilson Oliphant

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

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    Recognition and Revelation: Short Nonfiction Writings

    Margaret Laurence

    Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation’s most respected authors. This is a critical edition of over fifty essays…

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    Recognition and Revelation: Short Nonfiction Writings

    Margaret Laurence

    Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation’s most respected authors. This is a critical edition of over fifty essays…

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    Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife (1892)

    Margaret Wilson Oliphant

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    Memoir of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife, Volume 1

    Mrs Oliphant (Margaret)

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