Ross, Sinclair

THE LAMP AT NOON - and Other Stories: The Outlaw; Cornet at Night; Not by Rain Alone; Part I: Summer Thunder; Part II: September Snow; Circus in Town; A Field of Wheat; The Runaway; The Painted Door; One's a Heifer

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THE LAMP AT NOON - and Other Stories: The Outlaw; Cornet at Night; Not by Rain Alone; Part I: Summer Thunder; Part II: September Snow; Circus in Town; A Field of Wheat; The Runaway; The Painted Door; One's a Heifer
Sinclair (introduction by Margaret Laurence) Ross
Manufacturer: McClelland and Stewart - New Canadian Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GW236Q

CANADIAN SHORT STORIES - First (1st) (1) (One) Series: The Privilege of the Limits; Strayed; Paul Farlotte; The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias; Snow; Mrs Golightly and the First Convention; The Heritage; Mist Green Oats; Blind MacNair

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CANADIAN SHORT STORIES - First (1st) (1) (One) Series: The Privilege of the Limits; Strayed; Paul Farlotte; The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias; Snow; Mrs Golightly and the First Convention; The Heritage; Mist Green Oats; Blind MacNair
Robert (editor) (E. W. Thomson; Sir Charles G. D. Roberts; Duncan Campbell Scott; Stephen Leacock; Frederick Philip Grove; Ethel Wilson; Ringuet; Mavis Gallant; Thomas H. Raddall; Morley Callaghan; Sinclair Ross; Alice Munro; Mordecai Richler) Weaver
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

As For Me And My House : New Canadian Library N 4

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As For Me And My House : New Canadian Library N 4
Sinclair Ross
Manufacturer: McClelland & Stewart
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J409PI

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Classic Canadian Literature

Sawbones Memorial (cuRRents)
Sinclair Ross
Manufacturer: The University of Alberta Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0888643543

Book Description

On the eve of his retirement, Doctor "Sawbones" Hunter reflects on his career as a small-town physician. Introduction by Ken Mitchell.

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Classic Canadian Literature.......2003-12-28

This is one of the great works of Canadian fiction. It tells the story of a retiring doctor through the first-person perspectives of others. It is extremely well written, and the existentialist bent of the theme is insightful and provocative. It reads fast, and you'll wish there were more. This should certainly be part of any reading list for Canadian literature, and probably for fiction in general. Surely you should also read Ross's "As For Me and My House."

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The Race and Other Stories
Sinclair Ross
Manufacturer: Univ of Ottawa Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories (New Canadian Library)

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A sad, sad story...

The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories (New Canadian Library)
Sinclair Ross
Manufacturer: New Canadian Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0771099967
Release Date: 1988-11-01

Book Description

Sinclair Ross’ 1941 novel As For Me and My House is a masterpiece of Canadian literature, a stunning evocation of the Prairies and their inhabitants during the Depression of the Thirties. With The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories, an original New Canadian Library collection, Ross reveals further dimensions of his fictional universe.

A woman’s impulsive infidelity leads to tragedy. A sudden hailstorm destroys hope. A boy learns to conquer a beautiful wild horse. A little girl dreams about a circus. Against the isolated, haunting landscapes of summer droughts and winter blizzards, the men and women of Ross’ stories grapple with fate against almost impossible odds. Marked by a legacy of pride that will not suffer defeat, Ross’ unyielding characters are cut off from their loved ones by obstinacy and defiance. Their tragedy is not that they suffer, but that they suffer alone.

The sensitivity, compassion, and subtlety with which Ross portrays human aspirations and failings remain to this day unequalled in Canadian fiction.

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A sad, sad story..........1999-01-06

Terribly, terribly sad. The lamp becomes the framework, the stage for this story. There is the feeling of coming full circle, and of defeat; resignation. There is a certain desperation in the story that is depressing and overwhelming. Not an enjoyable read, but an engrossing one.

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An excellent--but not great--Canadian novel
Wind, Earth and Dust
Canadian Literature at its' best!

As for Me and My House
Sinclair Ross
Manufacturer: Univ of Nebraska Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Double Hook (New Canadian Library)
Thirty Acres (New Canadian Library)

ASIN: 0803289006

Book Description

Canadian Fiction Studies are an answer to every librarian's, student's, and teacher's wishes. Each book, about 80 pages in length, contains clear, readable information on a major Canadian novel. These studies are carefully designed readings of the novels; they are not substitutes for reading them. Each book is attractively produced and follows the same format, so students will know exactly what to expect:

A chronology of the author's life The importance of the book Critical reception Reading of the text Selected list of works cited

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An excellent--but not great--Canadian novel.......2004-01-19

Whether As For Me and My House can be considered one of the "great Canadian novels" is somewhat questionable, but there is no denying that it is a profound, complex and evocative work of literature.

Set during the Great Depression, the story revolves around the domestic life of the Bentleys, who have come to a small, isolated Saskatchewan farm-community of Horizon, where Philip Bentley has taken on role of being the town's new minister.

Ministering is something that Philip, in fact has little desire to do, and is instead obsessed with painting, to the point where his wife--through whose perspective the story is told--is neglected. There relationship is essentially broken, but the reasons for this are not simple, and this essentially is the focus of the story.

Throughout the novel, Mrs. Bentley--who is never named because the work is written in the form of journal entries--continuously explores their history, their personalities and the effect of their confined lifestyle upon themselves and one another.

Over the course of their residence in Horizon she comes to realize that the break-down of their relationship, is not so much the fault of Philip's conduct, as we are first led to believe, but fact that both have allowed themsleves to become victims of circumstance.

As For Me and My House is definitely a work worth studying, but like I initially stated, I question whether it can really be considered one of the great Canadian novels.

Wind, Earth and Dust.......2002-11-17

As For Me and My House provides a descriptive tale about a preacher and his wife during the depression. Written by the hand of the wife, who remains nameless, the book incorporates vast imagery to help portray the feeble lifestyle they were trapped within. Mr. Bentley, unable to motivate himself to move beyond his unsatisfying profession as a preacher, lives in unhappiness, bringing his wife into oppression with him. Animal imagery is prevalent, as the town and its people are described in such terms. They all cower and protect themselves; with the exception of Judith, who "scales the wind" at the beginning until she discovers her own sexuality and becomes the earth....Can air continue to have 'life' when submersed into the ground?

Canadian Literature at its' best!.......1999-04-29

Through the journal entries of Mrs. Bentley, we are given a beautiful and complex novel of great importance in Canadian Literature. As a story of life during the depression, this book perfectly captures the trials of prairie life during this era. As Mrs. Bentley describes events in her journal entries, we are given a chance to not only accept the text at face value, but to read between the lines. Mrs. Bentley tends to say more by what she doesn't write than what she does. All in all, an incredible book and one which everyone should read.

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The Culbin Sands
Ross Sinclair
Manufacturer: University of Aberdeen Centre for Scottish Studies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0906265169

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The Reed Maori Picture Dictionary
Margaret Sinclair , and Ross Calman
Manufacturer: Reed New Zealand
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1869488636

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The Well (cuRRents)
Sinclair Ross
Manufacturer: The University of Alberta Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0888643594

Book Description

A petty criminal eludes capture by becoming a hired man on a prairie farm, only to discover deception and betrayal. Introduction by Kristjana Gunnars.

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