The Clockmaker
The serial publication of The Clockmaker in 1835-36 launched Canadian judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton to literary fame. A broad satire with a garrulous, deceitful American clock-seller, Sam Slick, as its central character, the book was embraced by reviewers and readers internationally. Some Canadian reviewers were often less enthusiastic, however, with one calling Slick’s comical American…
The Broadview Editions Bookshelf
The Broadview Editions Bookshelf provides digital access to over 450 meticulously edited works of literature. For more than 30 years, Broadview’s editions have presented classic works of literature, both canonical and lesser-known, in a reader-friendly format with scholarly introductions, footnotes, and appendices to situate each work in its historical and cultural moment. This new digital…
Improved by Cultivation
This anthology combines some of the finest writing by such well-known writers as Leacock, Moodie, Ernest Thompson Seton and Lucy Maud Montgomery with fascinating pieces by lesser-known names such as George Copway (the first Canadian native writer to have his work published in English) and Lady Agnes Macdonald (the wife of Canada’s first prime minister,…
Canadian
The Clockmaker (1835-36) Thomas Chandler Haliburton A Plea for Emigration (1852) Mary Ann Shadd The Manor House of De Villerai (1859-60) Rosanna Mullins Leprohon Winona (1873) Isabella Valancy Crawford Tekahionwake (1884-1913) Tekahionwake / E. Pauline Johnson A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) James De Mille Beautiful Joe (1894) Margaret Marshall Saunders Pool…