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In the course of his research for A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend, Ralph Maud consulted manuscripts at Columbia University Library of the stories that Henry W. Tate, a Tsimshian, sent to Franz Boas during the decade 1903-13. Maud was struck by the fact that Tate first wrote the stories in English before providing a Tsimshian equivalent for Boas, and that the style of storytelling was much more vibrant and compelling in these original English texts than in the versions Boas "cleaned up" and published in Tsimshian Mythology (1916). Boas' monumental compilation of heavily revised texts has long been a much-consulted "classic" of ethnology. Through Maud's selection of the best of Tate's original stories, we can hear the animated writer behind Boas' revised texts - texts now presented in the authentic voice of Tate's original tellings. Each of the stories, and the extensive Raven Cycle, are provided with introductions and notes by the editor.

In 1876, Jack the Ripper, otherwise known as Canadian Doctor Thomas Neill Cream, graduated with merit from McGill's faculty of medicine. Cream was a backstreet abortionist and managed an exclusive brothel called The Elite Club. His notorious reputation eventually forced him to flee Canada for London. He was hanged in 1892 for the murder of four prostitutes. Doctor Thomas Neill Cream mixes fact and speculation with its cast of unlikely characters: khaki-covered union organizers - the good guys; five white-faced "zombies" representing such illustrious "Founding Fathers of Confederation" and distinguished members of the McGill fraternity as Sir Hugh Allan, Sir William Dawson, Sir William Osler and Lord Strathcona - the victors; and their young prostitutes - the victims. Intended as a cultural exorcism, playwright David Fennario charges with murder the capitalists who are now paraded through our history books as nation-builders. Past evil is paralleled in the present.

"Always carry a bar of soap!" his father advises, as Alistair sets off to drive from Nairobl halfway across Africa in a secondhand Austin in the 1950s. "It wasn't clear to me how you could fix a leak in the gas tank with soap", Alistair reports, "but I never doubted that sort of instruction coming from him". So begins the first tale in this sequel to Bill Schermbrucker's well-received collection Chameleon and Other Stories.

Audrey Thomas's classic coming-of-age novel about madness, loneliness, despair and escape, now republished with a new introduction.

A long poem that blends and bends the lyric, procedural poetry, the travelogue and extended forms, Dwell lives in, or dwells on, the interaction of a restless subjectivity with the seemingly transparent, yet identifiable, social codes that encases us.

Available for the first time in one volume, Trees Are Lonely Company is a collection of Howard O'Hagan's short stories previously published to critical acclaim in The Woman Who Got on at Jasper Station & Other Stories and Wilderness Men. Spanning decades of O'Hagan's experience, as mountain guide, gentleman adventurer and story-teller, this collection of tales include: A Mountain Journey, The Man Who Walked Naked Across Montana, Grey Owl, The Warning, and The Little Bear That Climbs Trees. The title story, Trees Are Lonely Company was awarded the President's Medal of the University of Western Ontario in 1959 for best short story of the year. As in his classic novel Tay John, O'Hagan's characters in these stories are formed by and emerge from the life-force of the landscapes they inhabit - emblematic of a continent emerging into history. This collection serves to commemorate the life's work of one of Canada's most passionately imaginative writers.

How our "innocent" childhood games come back to haunt our adult life. Cast of 4 women and 1 adolescent male.

The wife of a mystery writer is threatened after another novel is published. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.

A revitalization of a Russian theatre classic. Cast of 5 women and 8 men.

bissett has remained on a permanent world tour for thirty years, writing this book while on a European reading circuit.

"Mrs. Blood wears her nerve ends outside her skin like an updated Katherine Mansfield heroine--and responds intensely to her external environment and to her subconscious. The effect is to create a vivid impression of a personality in crisis ... A spectacular tour de force, this."

Previously ignored or misunderstood by historians, the war between the Hwulmuhw or People of the Land and the colonial government of British Columbia remains of utmost significance in todays world of unsettled First Nations land claims. Chris Arnett reconstructs the fascinating account of the events of 1863 using newspaper editorials, letters, and articles; government and police correspondence; and navy logs.

Emily Carr lived in a magical place that she had christened The House of All Sorts. In this House which is open to all that is vital on Earth, Emily Carr, with all her greatness and her imperfections, receives visitors from her planet: Lizzie, her sister, is greeted with war whoops and rebuffs, for Lizzie is the adversary, as is all Victorian society; Sophie, her Amerindian friend, who brings messages, reminders and lessons from life; Lawren Harris, her young painter friend from the Group of Seven, who wants to free painting from dogma and revolutionize art in Canada; the Soul Tuner, who hears her cry and vibrates to her thoughts of adoration and compassion . . . and D'Sonoqua, the Goddess-Mother on her phosphorescent pedestal, who beckons to Emily from the old world of legends.

Written in the tradition of Umberto Eco and Manuel Puig, The Pagan Wall is a first novel by a master storyteller. What appears on the surface as a murder mystery set in Alsatia and the Rhineland, involving international arms dealers, dangerous liaisons, and every other known mystery novel archetype, The Pagan Wall unfolds into layer upon layer of meanings, reversals, historical shifts, philosophical conundrums and linguistic puzzles. Filled with police inspectors quoting Lacan, the appearance of Martin Heidegger as a character, and whole passages of translated epistemology woven into the dialogue, Arnason's narrative disguises are so seamlessly accomplished that all readers, whether ardent mystery genre fans or exotic deconstructionists, will believe this story to be specifically written for them.

These pieces introduce the reader to the literature that shaped the language and thought of late 20th-century North America.

Contains, as a centrepiece, the "Alefbet Transfers," a meditative, spacial explication of the 22 figures of the Hebrew alphabet.

A dark secret emerges in this second play about the wealthy Dunsmuir family. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.

When bill bissett thinks "inkorrect thots" anything can happen.

A solitary woman's interior journey of self-discovery.

The first of three plays about one of Canada's wealthiest and most-ruthless families. Cast of 2 women and 6 men.

A rich, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations. Cast of 3 women, 4 men and 1 boy.

Desperately poor immigrants find refuge with Montreal's legendary barkeep, Joe Beef. Cast of 5 women and 5 men.

A tough uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.

"Risque metaphors ... scandalously unpoetic ... a powerful alternative to the orthodoxy of poetic beauty."

"Warriors" enters the world of advertising, where even the product of war can be sold. Cast of 2 men.