Margaret Laurence

With her life nearly behind her, the witty, irascible, and fiercely proud Hagar Shipley escapes from her nursing home and sets out in search of a way to reconcile herself to her tumultuous past. Through her reflections, we come to know the rebellious young bride in a remote prairie town, her love for her two sons, the freedom she claimed and the joys she denied herself.In this bold, final step toward freedom and independence, Hagar gains a deeper understanding of the meaning of acceptance. Her thoughts evoke not only the rich pattern of her past experience but also the meaning of what it is to grow old and to come to terms with mortality.

The Diviners is the culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle.This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence’s writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance.The Diviners received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.

In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love, and contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit. Through her summer affair with Nick Kazlik, a schoolmate from earlier years, she learns at last to reach out to another person and to make herself vulnerable.A Jest of God won the Governor General’s Award for 1966 and was released as the successful film, Rachel, Rachel . The novel stands as a poignant and singularly enduring work by one of the world’s most distinguished authors.

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 growing up.In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod – a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girl’s growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into one masterly and moving poignant, compassionate, and profound in emotional impact.In this fourth book of the five-volume Manawaka series, Vanessa MacLeod takes her rightful place alongside the other unforgettable heroines of Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel , Rachel Cameron in A Jest of God , Stacey MacAindra in The Fire-Dwellers , and Morag Gunn in The Diviners .

Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past.The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days.Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone’s soul.

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 place where men and women struggle with self-betrayal, self-discovery, and the dawning of political pride.This Side Jordan transcends the traditional limits of the first novel. Its powerful and compassionate characterizations and its themes of exile and community anticipate the five later novels that make up Laurence’s acclaimed Manawaka series. A major work of lasting significance, This Side Jordan creates echoes in the mind of the reader as resonant as the drums of Ghana.

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 against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country’s new freedom.With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brilliantly in capturing the atmosphere of a continent and of individual men and women struggling for survival under the impact of the wind of change.

...with photos from the author's personal collection, TPCB is part travelogue, part autobiography, part celebration of human nature...

In this, her final work, Margaret Laurence tells the story of her life, the process of her writing, and the people and emotional journeys which accompanied it. She relates her experiences living in different cultures; the issues and causes she so passionately upheld; her personal battle against censorship. She also pays tribute to the three women from whom she drew important spiritual strength. Including a selection of her articles, speeches, and letters – many never before published – and photographs selected by Margaret Laurence from her personal family albums, Dance on the Earth is a book in which Margaret Laurence speaks about her place in the world as a woman, a writer, and a concerned human being.

Truly a classic by one of Canada’s finest authorsTen-year-old Sal is disappointed when she and her parents spend Christmas at her grandmother’s house, instead of at home, like they did before Grandpa died. In order to pass the time, Sal explores the contents of an old trunk. Searching through the old photographs she comes across a little girl’s winter coat, tries it on, and finds herself transported into the past where she makes an unexpected connection to her heritage and her grandmother.This model tale of time travel was one of Margaret Laurence’s few forays into children’s literature and has remained a favourite of children of all ages. New art by the original illustrator makes this a beautiful book for Christmas and for all seasons. A special treat for Margaret Laurence fans.

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A young mole tries to discover the cause and cure for the strange sickness spreading over the city of Molanium.

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 accompanied with a discussion of her life in Africa, and her in-depth investigation of the oral tradition of Somali literature.

From December 1966 to December 1986, Al Purdy and Margaret Laurence exchanged approximately 300 letters, the largest number of which were sent between 1967 and 1974. From these years, a fascinating selection of some 140 letters has been made, revealing the energy, wit, and candour of the delightful and supportive friendship between two of Canada's best-loved writers.

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 seven-year written correspondence. Laurence had just published her widely acclaimed The Diviners, for which she won her second Governor-General’s Award, and Roy had returned to the centre of the literary stage with a series of books that many critics now consider her richest and most mature works. Although both women had been born and raised in Manitoba ― Laurence in Neepawa and Roy in St. Boniface ― they met only once, in 1978 at a conference in Calgary. As these letters reveal, their prairie background created a common understanding of place and culture that bridged the differences of age and language. Here Laurence and Roy discuss everything from their own and each other’s writing, to Canadian politics, housekeeping, publishing, and their love of nature. With a thoughtful introduction by Paul G. Socken, these lovely and intimate letters record the moving, affectionate friendship between two remarkable women.

Jen and Tod Bean bring the family's six milking cows home daily, from their field. They'd rather swim and do other things than this job but change their tune, after they are horrified to discover their family's important source of income has disappeared. They are brave enough to search for them by themselves. Margaret Laurence is our beloved, award-winning, classic, adult author from Neepawa, Manitoba.Ann Blades ia a children's illustrator and author. She won the Canadian Association Of Children's Librarians Book Of The Year award in 1972 for "Mary Of Mile 18". In 1978 she was the winner of the Canada Council Award For Children's Literature for "A Salmon For Simon".

Imaginez la fin du monde.Vous survivez, seule avec votre enfant.Restez en vie!Une fable noire et néanmoins lumineuse de Margaret Laurence, une auteure incontournable!Ce récit inédit vous est offert gratuitement pour (re)découvrir cette grande dame des lettres canadiennes !

The author's interpretation of Jesus' birth and the subsequent visit of the three kings.

Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. She was also an accomplished essayist, yet today her nonfiction writing is largely unavailable and therefore little known. In Recognition and Revelation Nora Foster Stovel brings together Laurence's short nonfiction works, including many that have not previously been collected and some that have never before been published. These works, including over fifty essays and addresses that span Laurence's writing career from the 1960s to the 1980s, reveal her passionate concern for Canadian literature and for the land and peoples of Canada. Based on extensive archival research, Stovel's introduction contextualizes Laurence's nonfiction writings in her life as a creative artist and political activist and as a woman writing in the twentieth century. The texts range from essays on Laurence's own writings and on other works of Canadian literature to autobiographical essays, several focusing on environmental concerns, to sociopolitical essays and writing advocating for peace and nuclear disarmament. By revealing Laurence as a socially and politically committed artist, this collection of lively and provocative essays illuminates the undercurrents of her creative writing and places her fiction - often informed by her nonfiction writing - in a new light.

This collection of letters from Margaret Laurence to thirty-three Canadian writers is an intensely personal articulation of her development as a writer, and of the accompanying growth of Canadian literature between 1962 and 1986.Included are letters to Margaret Atwood, Don Bailey, George Bowering, Ernest Buckler, Silver Donald Cameron, Marian Engel, Hubert Evans, Timothy Findley, Gary Geddes, Graeme Gibson, Harold Horwood, Myrna Kotash, Robert Kroetsch, Dennis Lee, Norman Levine, Hugh MacLennan, Joyce Marshall, John Metcalf, Claire Mowat, Alice Munro, Frank Paci, Al Purdy, Janis Rapoport, Will Ready, Mordecai Richler, Gabrielle Roy, Andreas Schroeder, Glen Sorestad, David Watmough, David Williams, Budge Wilson, George Woodcock, and Dale Zieroth, with anecdotal or interpretive remarks.

The Making of Modern U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society and government, as well as practicing attorneys. This book contains copies of all known US Supreme Court filings related to this case including any transcripts of record, briefs, petitions, motions, jurisdictional statements, and memorandum filed. This book does not contain the Court's opinion. The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping ensure edition Surrey v. LaddPetition / MARGARET LAURENCE / 1963 / 466 / 375 U.S. 930 / 84 S.Ct. 332 / 11 L.Ed.2d 264 / 9-12-1963Surrey v. LaddBrief in Opposition (P) / ARCHIBALD COX / 1963 / 466 / 375 U.S. 930 / 84 S.Ct. 332 / 11 L.Ed.2d 264 / 10-11-1963

NY 1964 1st Knopf. An account of a sojourn among the nomads of Somaliland. 8vo., 295pp., hardcover. VG in Good DJ, a few chips.

Margaret Laurence's Long Drums and Cannons is a fascinating study of African postcolonial writing, written by Laurence after her early years in Africa. Laurence writes that the "most enduring interesting aspect of Nigerian literature is the insights it gives not only into immediate and local dilemmas, but through these, into the human dilemma as a whole." Her comments on the early writings of well-known Nigerian authors-Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, John Pepper Clark, Amos Tutuola, and Cyprian Ekwensi-also provide insights into her early African writings and her later Canadian works. She also explores the works of then little-known authors, including Flora Nwapa, Nigeria's first woman novelist, Gabriel Okara, T.M. Aluko, Elechi Amadi, Onuora Nzekwu, and Nkem Nwankwo. This new edition of Long Drums and Cannons , originally published in 1968 and long out of print, also contains Laurence's previously unpublished essay "Tribalism As Us Versus Them,"which provides Laurence's own postscript to her book. A Foreword by her colleague, Douglas Killam, a Preface by Christian Riegel, a new Introduction by Nora Foster Stovel, and a commentary on "Nigerian Literature" by Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah place Laurence's work in a contemporary context. Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text, and a glossary complete this edition. Long Drums and Cannons is a classic of early postcolonial criticism, of interest to Laurence's wide readership and to anyone interested in African literature.

Contents: The case of the blond butcher, a wanted man --Song --Thetis' song about her son --North main car.

Ta maison est en feuTraduit de l’anglais par Florence Lévy-PaoloniUn incendie ravage l’âme de Stacey MacAindra. Proche de la quarantaine, épouse d’un représentant sans envergure, mère de quatre enfants, elle est l’incarnation de la femme au foyer idéale. Or, elle est habitée par la conviction profonde que la vie a plus à offrir que ce rôle ingrat, cette routine aliénante. Prisonnière des contraintes sociales, Stacey se permet bien quelques écarts, de menus plaisirs, mais sa culpabilité la ramène vite à l’ordre. Elle brûle, rêve d’une autre vie. Pour échapper à la tristesse, à la monotonie des jours qui passent, à l’angoisse de voir sa famille s’envoler en fumée devant ses yeux, Stacey convoque des bribes de son passé. Après Hagar Shipley (L’ange de pierre) et Rachel Cameron (Une divine plaisanterie), Margaret Laurence donne naissance, avec la lucidité, l’ironie et la subtile poésie qu’on lui connaît, à une autre femme inoubliable, dont la voix peut à nouveau résonner. « [...] Ce roman de Margaret Laurence est paru en 1969, mais je suis restée sidérée par la modernité des propos, par la modernité de la narration. Parfois, une impression de parenté avec la Virginia Woolf de La promenade au phare, une sorte de lumière sur la conscience. La conscience de Stacey est lumineuse, c’est pour cela qu’elle est toujours en questionnement, elle n’est enfermée dans aucun dogme, ni religieux, ni féministe, ni conformiste. Stacey ressent la vie et on la ressent avec elle. Dans un article, Robert Lévesque parlait de Mar­garet Laurence en termes de « féminitude » ; on ne saurait mieux trouver. »Extrait de la préface de Lise Tremblay * * * Un oiseau dans la maisonTraduit de l’anglais par Christine Klein-LataudÀ l’âge ingrat de douze ans, Vanessa MacLeod vacille au bord du gouffre séparant l’enfance de l’adolescence. Prise entre ces deux mondes, celle qui « déteste le fait d’être si jeune » grandit dans une imposante maison de briques où elle est un témoin privilégié de la vie qui bat au sein du nid familial. En huit histoires qui forment autant d’étapes d’un parcours menant à l’âge adulte et jalonné d’épreuves, de petits miracles et de grands deuils, elle se fera la chroniqueuse d’un clan fascinant, miné par la maladie et la folie. OEuvre forte et novatrice tant par sa forme, assemblage de textes indépendants mais finement entrelacés, que par le regard, d’une étonnante justesse, qu’elle pose sur les relations entre les membres d’une même famille, Un oiseau dans la maison est marqué au sceau de la grande dame des lettres canadiennes qu’est Margaret Laurence. « L’univers auquel nous convie Margaret Laurence dans son magnifique recueil Un oiseau dans la maison est celui des familles Connor et MacLeod. Au sein de ces deux clans grandit la petite Vanessa, la narratrice sous qui, on le devine, se cache l’écrivain, de la même façon que l’on entend la voix de Gabrielle Roy sous celle de Christine dans Rue Deschambault, ou que percent les accents de Mordecai Richler sous les réflexions du narrateur de Rue Saint-Ur­bain. Cette voix d’enfant,est empreinte chez Margaret Laurence d’une justesse d’émotion à la fois touchante et exempte de sentimentalisme ; rares sont ceux qui ont su exploiter avec une telle finesse [...] » Extrait de la préface de Nadine Bismuth