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The Imperialist
by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0771099789
- ISBN 13
- 9780771099786
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About This Item
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland & Stewart Inc, 1990. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Paperback in Very Good Condition. First published 1904 by Copp Clark Company Limiited. Toro Ontario. Afterword by Janette Turner Hospital. Clean illustrated wraps with whisper of wear, binding tight and solid, internals Fine. A classic portrait of a turn-of-the century Ontario town, capturing the spirit of an emergent nation through the example of two young dreamers. An astute analysis of the paradoxes of Canadian nationhood, as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1904.
Synopsis
Sara Jeannette Duncan was born in Brantford, Ontario, in 1861. She attended the Toronto Normal School, then left teaching for a career in journalism. She worked as an editorial writer and book reviewer for the Washington Post , then wrote for the Toronto Globe under the name of “Garth Grafton,” and contributed a column to whose founder was Goldwin Smith. She was also parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa for the Montreal Star . In 1888 Duncan set off on a round-the-world trip as correspondent for the New York World and the Montreal Star . In Calcutta she met her future husband, Everard Cotes, an Englishman serving there as curator of the Indian Museum. They married two years later. Duncan lived in India for twenty-five years, with extended stays abroad in London and frequent trips to Canada. A prolific and popular writer of fiction, Duncan set nearly half of her novels in India. The Imperialist (1904), generally considered her finest, is her only novel set in Canada. During and after World War One she devoted much of her time to playwrighting. In 1922 Duncan and her husband retired to England. Sara Jeannette Duncan died in Ashtead, Surrey, England in 1922. From the Paperback edition.
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024426
- Title
- The Imperialist
- Author
- Duncan, Sara Jeannette
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0771099789
- ISBN 13
- 9780771099786
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Inc
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- CANADA COMPROMISE POLITICS CANADIAN NATIONHOOD HISTORICAL FICTION
- X weight
- 0 oz
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