P.K. Page is best known as one of Canada's finest poets, but over the course of her career she has also written a number of essays – meditations – on her life and work, on the nature of art and the imagination, and on Canadian works of literature, painting, and film that have had special significance for her. As lovers of her poetry would hope and expect, these essays are beautiful, intelligent, moving, and delightfully quirky. The Filled Pen brings together the most important of ...

Precocious in childhood, irrepressible in old age, Miss Topaz Edgeworth’s singular accomplishment is to live out an entire century in unflagging – and mostly oblivious – optimism. At once outmoded and unconventional, tyrannical and benign, Topaz leads a largely unexamined life. But the magical quality of her consciousness, revealed through stunning narrative technique, makes her into one of the most delightful characters in Canadian literature. Published in 1949, The Innocent Traveller...

In the time of swords and periwigs and full–skirted coats with flowered lappets—when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold–laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta—there lived a tailor in Gloucester.He sat in the window of a little shop in Westgate Street, cross–legged on a table, from morning till dark.All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippeted, piecing out his satin and pompadour, and lutestring; stuffs had strange names, and were very expensive in the days of th...

**From the New York Times bestselling author of The Saving Graces and Flight Lessons comes Book II of the Wyckerley Trilogy…To Have and to Hold**Suave, cynical, and too handsome for his own good, Sebastian Verlaine never expected to become a magistrate judging the petty crimes of his tenants and neighbors. Nor can the new Viscount D’Aubrey foresee that, when a fallen woman appears before him, he’ll find himself beguiled against all reason...

The Collected Early Writings gathers Virginia Woolf's apprentice work—juvenilia, sketches, reviews, essays, and early fiction—that reveals the formation of one of modernism's most distinctive minds. These pieces move between satire, observation, literary criticism, and narrative experiment, often displaying the wit, social acuity, and rhythmic prose that would later mature in Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves. Read in literary context, the volume illuminates Woolf's transition...

Five horrifying ghost tales by M. R. James.

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories gathers Virginia Woolf's brief fictions into a luminous study of perception, memory, and the unseen pressures beneath ordinary life. From the spectral tenderness of the title story to the social unease of "The New Dress" and the visionary compression of "Kew Gardens," Woolf replaces conventional plot with rhythm, image, and shifting consciousness. These stories belong to the high modernist moment, yet they also converse with impressionism, symbolism,...

"There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream." - Angela ThirkellAngela Thirkell, the cousin of Rudyard Kipling and the granddaughter of celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, was an eminent twentieth century literary figure, and wrote avidly until her death in 1961. In her beautifully nostalgic memoirs, she recalls in rich detail the three houses in which she grew up and the childhood me...

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of Virginia Woolf. Adeline Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 and...

'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the season. Dickens's other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton'; 'The Haunted Man'; and shorter pieces, some drawn from the 'Chris...

This edition features• two complete books• a linked Table of ContentsCONTENTSTHE BROTHER OF DAPHNEI PUNCH AND JUDYII CLOTHES AND THE MANIII WHEN IT WAS DARKIV ADAM AND NEW YEAR'S EVEV THE JUDGEMENT OF PARISVI WHICH TO ADOREVII EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORYVIII THE BUSY BEERSIX A POINT OF HONOURX PRIDE GOETH BEFOREXI THE LOVE SCENEXII THE ORDER OF THE BATHXIII A LUCID INTERV...

In her 1919 work Modern Fiction, Virginia Woolf explains her new approach to writing : Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions - trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday. This last phrase "the life of Monday or Tuesday", is what Woolf believed to be at the co...