The Tomorrow-Tamer
10 best books like The Tomorrow-Tamer (Margaret Laurence): As for Me and My House, Wild Geese, The Backwoods of Canada, Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, Legends of Charlemagne, The Unabridged Jack London, Sixes and Sevens - The Complete Works of O. Henry - Vol. VII, The Wide Net and Other Stories
| Author | Sinclair Ross |
| ISBN | 0771099975 |
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind.”
The...
| Author | Martha Ostenso |
| ISBN | 0771099940 |
Wild Geese caused a sensation when it was first published in 1925. To a generation bred on sentimental escapist literature, the idea of a heroine as wild as a bronco and as fiery as a tigress was nothing short of revolutionary. In the character of Judith Gare, Martha Ostenso had painted so naked and uncompromising...
| Author | Catharine Parr Traill |
| ISBN | 0771099770 |
Catherine Parr Strickland was an experienced writer who first work was published in 1818; her writing helped to support herself and her family financially after her father’s death. She married half-pay Lieutenant Thomas Traill and emigrated to Upper Canada in 1832 to homestead in the bush. Her...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0965076474 |
For short stories that manage to be funny, sexy, and macabre all at one, here are Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch, two collections by "the absolute master of the twist-in-the-tale," says the Observers. My Uncle Oswald is a hilarious novel that follows the erotic exploits of the "the greatest fornicator of...
| Author | David Willis McCullough |
| ISBN | 0394540654 |
For enthralling suspense and brilliant detection, there has never been a collection to match this one, with complete novels by Ross Macdonald and Ruth Rendell, a novella by Israel Zangwill, and sixteen short stories by the best mystery writers from England and America—Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton,...
| Author | Clifton Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0395368057 |
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
| Author | Thomas Bulfinch |
| ISBN | 0028614771 |
Here are the world s most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today s readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch s has been heralded for more than a century, it has never...
| Author | Jack London |
| ISBN | 0894711245 |
THE UNABRIDGED JACK LONDON is a comprehensive collection of Jack London's sprawling, timeless fiction. Included here, in addition to his classic novels and short story collections, is a group of "uncollected" short stories, some of which have never appeared in book form. We have sought, wherever...
| Author | O. Henry |
| ISBN | 1443781800 |
ENGLISH: In this collection of 25 stories by O.Henry, I liked three of them specially:
"Ulysses and the dogman" about a dog-walker who meets an old friend and says once too many "make it two."
"The duplicity of Hargraves" about a very special actor and an old southern major.
"The...
| Author | Eudora Welty |
| ISBN | 0156966107 |
These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans. In each story, Miss Welty sustains the high level of performance that,...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060012196 |
When The Sky Blue Ball comes soaring over the fence, a high-school girl is confronted with the haunting memory of childhood. A jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous Capricorn, aware of the terrifying possibilities. A vulnerable young girl cunningly outwits a menacing stranger...
| Author | Gina Berriault |
| ISBN | 1887178384 |
"Things come and go. I figure they go more often than they come. Not much came my way but I lost more than I had. If you see what I mean." {from "The Overcoat"}
"How could a man change like that? His entire body aware of her, even the soles of his feet against her feet, and then be that person no more? And...
| Author | Frederick Philip Grove |
| ISBN | 0771099614 |
Settlers of the Marsh was first published in 1925, after a struggle by the author to persuade publishers that his first novel would meet public acceptance. Some critics immediately condemned this hypnotic story of the loss of innocence on the Manitoba frontier, calling it “obscene” and “indecent.”...
| Author | Adele Wiseman |
| ISBN | 0771098510 |
Hoda, the protagonist of Crackpot, is one of the most captivating characters in Canadian fiction. Graduating from a tumultuous childhood to a life of prostitution, she becomes a legend in her neighbourhood, a canny and ingenious woman, generous, intuitive, and exuding a wholesome lust for life.
Resonant...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 1419104187 |
I yearned to go, and when I willed the way so on appeared; so careless of bonnetless head and cambric gown, I stretched my hands to him, saying boldly, "Play young Lochinvar, Guy; I am little and light; take me up before you and show me the sea.."He liked the daring feat, held out his hand, I stepped on his boot...
| Author | Timothy Findley |
| ISBN | 0140241213 |
It starts out as classic Findley: stories about children, the lost, the ageing, all trapped in their nostalgia & regret, unable or unwilling to communicate what they truly feel. But then the collection descends into the style of writing & the type of character that put me off the very similar...
| Author | Morley Callaghan |
| ISBN | 0097807710 |
One of the great novels of the 1930s, Such Is My Beloved recounts the tragic story of two down-and-out prostitutes and the young priest who aspires to redeem their lives. The novel is at once a compassionate portrait of innocence and idealism, and an emphatic condemnation of a society where the lines...
