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Chien D'Or/The Golden Dog, Critical Edition - A Legend Of Quebec

by Mary Jane Edwards e William Kirby

96,71€ + 10% CARD

 A beloved literary artefact, presented for the first time as the author intended
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Backwoods Of Canada

by Catharine Parr Traill e Michael A. Peterman

144,76€ + 10% CARD

 Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1802-1899) emigrated from Great Britain to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband Thomas Traill, a retired army officer. The Backwoods of Canada (1836), Catharine's epistolary narrative based on her experiences in the country north of Peterborough in the years immediately following her arrival in North America, is an important record of nineteenth-century pioneering and a rich personal memoir of a woman. It has become a foundation work of Canadian Iiterature.
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Clockmaker - Series One, Two And Three

by George L. Parker e Thomas Chandler Haliburton

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 In 1835 Thomas Chandler Haliburton introduced Samuel Slick of Slicksville, Connecticut, into the pages of the Novascotian in order to awaken his fellow citizens to the economic opportunities of their province. From this Halifax newspaper trotted out the Connecticut Yankee, manufacturer and seller of clocks, with his original dialect and unique comic vision, to become the chief character in three series of The Clockmaker published between 1836 and 1840.
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Canadian Brothers Or The Prophecy Fulfilled

by John Richardson

96,71€ + 10% CARD

 The Canadian Brothers or the Prophecy Fulfilled is a fictionalized narrative of events, people and places from the author's childhood and adolescence in Amherstburg, Upper Canada, that reflects foundation myths about Ontario and Canada and reveals their d
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St. Ursula'S Convent Or The Nun Of Canada

by Douglas G. Lochhead e Julia C.B. Hart

96,71€ + 10% CARD

 In 1824, when the novel was issued in Kingston, Upper Canada, it became not only the first work of fiction written by a native-born Canadian and published in what is now Canada, but also a significant early attempt by a Canadian of English and French heri
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Antoinette De Mirecourt Or Secret Marrying And Secret Sorrowing

by John C. Stockdale e Rosanna Leprohon

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 A moral exemplum about courtship and marriage, this "essentially Canadian" tale, which takes place in the 1760s, reflects its author's profound and sometimes disturbing knowledge of the bicultural and bilingual society in which she lived.
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Roughing It In The Bush Or Life In Canada

by Carl Ballstadt e Susanna Moodie

86,11€ + 10% CARD

 Probably Canada''s best known settlement story, this autobiographical account of frontier conditions in the 1830s is a compelling narrative that emphasizes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a sensible and sensitive woman and her family as they come to
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Mephibosheth Stepsure Letters

by Thomas Mcculloch

96,71€ + 10% CARD

 Originally published in the Acadian Reader, a Halifax newspaper, in the early 1820s, the letters earned for their author the distinction of being called "the founder of genuine Canadian humour" by Northrop Frye.
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Wacousta Or, The Prophecy - A Tale Of The Canadas

by John Richardson

43,73€ + 10% CARD

 Set on the northwest frontier during the Pontiac conspiracy of the 1760s, this story of false identity, wasted love, diabolic vengeance and unquenchable hatred articulates themes and mythologies relevant to French, British, Canadian and American history.
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Canadian Crusoes - A Tale Of The Rice Lake Plains

by Catharine Traill

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 This absorbing story about three children of Scottish and French origin who become lost on the Rice Lake Plains in the late eighteenth century provides the author with an opportunity to contemplate important themes of Canadian literature and identity.
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History Of Emily Montague

by Frances Brooke e Mary Jane Edwards

43,73€ + 10% CARD

 Frequently called the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague, presents subversive views on traditional subjects like love and marriage and introduces such unique Canadian themes as the relationships between the Québecois and their British con
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The Backwoods Of Canada

by Catharine Parr Traill

31,54€

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Malaysian Development

by Martin Rudner

27,03€

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Welfare, Property Rights And Economic Policy - Essays And Tributes In Honour Of H. Scott Gordon

by Thomas K. Rymes

25,23€

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 This volume celebrates one of Canada's most distinguished social scientists and economics scholars. The book contains four essays, with comments, written to honour Gordon, with reminiscences by friends and colleagues from many universities in Canada and the U.S.
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Antoinette De Mirecourt Or Secret Marrying And Secret Sorrowing

by John C. Stockdale e Rosanna Leprohon

28,84€

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 A moral exemplum about courtship and marriage, this "essentially Canadian" tale, which takes place in the 1760s, reflects its author's profound and sometimes disturbing knowledge of the bicultural and bilingual society in which she lived.
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The Mephibosheth Stepsure Letters

by Thomas Mcculloch

32,45€

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A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylinder

by James De Mille e Malcolm Parks

31,54€

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 With its curious mixture of adventure, natural history and satire this early Canadian novel has become a landmark work of fantasy and science fiction.
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Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses - Confronting Antisemitism In The Shadow Of War

by L. Ruth Klein

27,03€

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 Exploring the nature of Canada's response to the plight of European Jews seeking refuge and to anti-Jewish discrimination in Canada.
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Malaysian Development

by Martin Rudner

92,83€

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The Clockmaker - Series One, Two And Three

by George L. Parker e Thomas Chandler Haliburton

35,15€

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 In 1835 Thomas Chandler Haliburton introduced Samuel Slick of Slicksville, Connecticut, into the pages of the Novascotian in order to awaken his fellow citizens to the economic opportunities of their province. From this Halifax newspaper trotted out the C
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Antoinette De Mirecourt Or Secret Marrying And Secret Sorrowing

by John C. Stockdale e Rosanna Leprohon

92,83€

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 A moral exemplum about courtship and marriage, this "essentially Canadian" tale, which takes place in the 1760s, reflects its author's profound and sometimes disturbing knowledge of the bicultural and bilingual society in which she lived.
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Distributed Algorithms On Graphs

by Eli Gafni e Nicola Santoro

92,83€

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A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylinder

by James De Mille e Malcolm Parks

92,83€

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 With its curious mixture of adventure, natural history and satire this early Canadian novel has become a landmark work of fantasy and science fiction.
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The History Of Emily Montague

by Frances Brooke e Mary Jane Edwards

27,94€

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