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The Prophet's Camel Bell: A Memoir of Somaliland

Product Description: In 1950, as a young bride, Margaret Laurence set out with her engineer husband to what was then Somaliland: a British protectorate in North Africa few Canadians had ever heard of. Her account of this voyage into the desert is full of wit and astonishment...read more

By Margaret Laurence

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Hardcover:

9780201549942, titled "A Survey of Mathematics With Applications" | 4th edition (Addison-Wesley, January 1, 1993), cover price $66.00 | also contains A Survey of Mathematics With Applications

Paperback:

9780226470078 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2011), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In 1950, as a young bride, Margaret Laurence set out with her engineer husband to what was then Somaliland: a British protectorate in North Africa few Canadians had ever heard of.

This Side Jordan

By Margaret Laurence

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9780226469980 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2011), cover price $16.00

9780771093869 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, August 4, 2009, cover price $19.95

The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories

By Margaret Laurence (other contributor)

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9780771094132 | New Canadian Library, January 26, 2010, cover price $14.95

Jest of God

Product Description: In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love, and contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit...read more

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9780771093784 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, December 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.

9780226469522, titled "A Jest of God" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1993), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A thirty-four-year-old school teacher living with her mother, Rachel Cameron feels trapped in an environment of small-town deceit and pettiness—her own and that of others.

9780771099885 | New Canadian Library, June 1, 1988, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.

9780553104004 | Bantam Books, April 1, 1977, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: A thirty-four-year-old school teacher living with her mother, Rachel Cameron feels trapped in an environment of small-town deceit and pettiness—her own and that of others.

Prebinding:

9780613997904 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1988, cover price $18.45 | About this edition: A thirty-four-year-old school teacher living with her mother, Rachel Cameron feels trapped in an environment of small-town deceit and pettiness—her own and that of others.

Fire-Dwellers

Product Description: Convinced that life has more to offer than the tedious routine of her days, Stacey MacAindra yearns to recover some of the passion of her early romance. In this extraordinary novel, Margaret Laurence has given us yet another unforgettable heroine: smart, witty, but overwhelmed by the responsibilities of raising four children and trying to love her overworked husband...read more

By Margaret Laurence

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9780226469515, titled "The Fire-Dwellers" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1993), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Convinced that life has more to offer than the tedious routine of her days, Stacey MacAindra yearns to recover some of the passion of her early romance.

9780771099878, titled "The Fire-Dwellers" | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, January 1, 1988, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past.

9780770422691 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books of Canada Ltd, January 1, 1984), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past.

Intimate Strangers: The Letters of Margaret Laurence And Gabrielle Roy

Product Description: The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature. In 1976, when both were at the height of their careers, they began a seven-year written correspondence. Laurence had just published her widely acclaimed The Diviners, for which she won her second Governor-General’s Award, and Roy had returned to the centre of the literary stage with a series of books that many critics now consider her richest and most mature works...read more

By Margaret Laurence, Gabrielle Roy and Paul G. Socken (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780887551772 | Univ of Manitoba Pr, February 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature.

Heart of a Stranger

Product Description: Between 1964 and 1975, Margaret Laurence wrote not only her Manawaka cycle, but also this collection of essays chronicling her travels and revealing how they inspired her fiction. Nora Foster Stovel's new introduction explores how Laurence's experiences in Somalia, Nigeria, Greece, Egypt, England and Scotland influenced and informed her Canadian fiction...read more

By Margaret Laurence and Nora Foster Stovel

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9780888644077 | Univ of Alberta Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Between 1964 and 1975, Margaret Laurence wrote not only her Manawaka cycle, but also this collection of essays chronicling her travels and revealing how they inspired her fiction.

Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists, 1952-1966

Product Description: Margaret Laurence's Long Drums and Cannons is a fascinating study of African postcolonial writing, written by Laurence after her early years in Africa. Laurence writes that the "most enduring interesting aspect of Nigerian literature is the insights it gives not only into immediate and local dilemmas, but through these, into the human dilemma as a whole...read more

By Margaret Laurence and Nora Foster Stovel

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9780888643322 | Univ of Alberta Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Margaret Laurence's Long Drums and Cannons is a fascinating study of African postcolonial writing, written by Laurence after her early years in Africa.

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Product Description: Over a period of forty years, from 1947 to 1986, Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman wrote to each other constantly. The topics they wrote about were as wide-ranging as their interests and experiences, and their correspondence encompassed many of the varied events of their lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Margaret Laurence, John Lennox, Ruth Panofsky (editor) and Adele Wiseman

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9780802042477 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Over a period of forty years, from 1947 to 1986, Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman wrote to each other constantly.

A Tree for Poverty: Somali Poetry and Prose

Product Description: Originally published in a small edition in 1954, A Tree for Poverty was Margaret Laurence's first published book. In this new edition, Laurence's collection of Somali poems and stories is accompanied with a discussion of her life in Africa, and her in-depth investigation of the oral tradition of Somali literature...read more

By Margaret Laurence

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9781550221770 | Reprint edition (E C W Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Originally published in a small edition in 1954, A Tree for Poverty was Margaret Laurence's first published book.

Bird in the House

Eight interconnected stories reveal the world of Vanessa MacLeod and her growing awareness of, and passage into, womanhood

By Margaret Laurence

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9780226469348, titled "A Bird in the House" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 15, 1993), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Eight interconnected stories reveal the world of Vanessa MacLeod and her growing awareness of, and passage into, womanhood

9780771099854 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, January 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: One of Canada’s most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up.

Prebinding:

9780613997607 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 1993, cover price $29.45 | About this edition: Eight interconnected stories reveal the world of Vanessa MacLeod and her growing awareness of, and passage into, womanhood

The Stone Angel

Product Description: This first of the five "Manawaka novels" (set in the fictional prairie town of Manawaka), the story of Hagar Shipley — whose rigid pride costs her everything she loves — has been taught in high school curricula in Canada for over twenty-five years and has never gone out of print...read more

By Margaret Laurence

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Hardcover:

9780394447193, titled "Stone Angel" | Random House Inc, June 1, 1964, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series," named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place.

Paperback:

9780887546310 | 1 edition (Playwrights Canada Pr, September 1, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: It is the late 1960s, and Hagar Shipley’s days are drawing to an end.

9780226469362 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1993), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Hagar Shipley, a fiercely proud woman facing the end of her life, escapes from her nursing home and searches for a way to reconcile herself to her tumultuous past and come to terms with mortality

9789990056662 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $0.02 | also contains The Stone Angel

9780771099892 | New Canadian Library, October 1, 1988, cover price $12.95

9780770421779 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books of Canada Ltd, June 1, 1981), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series," named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780864923936 | Abridged edition (Btc Audio Books, February 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This first of the five "Manawaka novels" (set in the fictional prairie town of Manawaka), the story of Hagar Shipley — whose rigid pride costs her everything she loves — has been taught in high school curricula in Canada for over twenty-five years and has never gone out of print.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780864922434 | Abridged edition (Goose Lane Editions, April 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This first of the five "Manawaka novels" (set in the fictional prairie town of Manawaka), the story of Hagar Shipley -- whose rigid pride costs her everything she loves -- has been taught in high school curricula in Canada for over twenty-five years and has never gone out of print.

Reinforced:

9780606162166, titled "Stone Angel" | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $22.73 | also contains The Stone Angel | About this edition: Hagar Shipley, a fiercely proud woman facing the end of her life, escapes from her nursing home and searches for a way to reconcile herself to her tumultuous past and come to terms with mortality

Prebinding:

9780785745488 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Hagar Shipley, a fiercely proud woman facing the end of her life, escapes from her nursing home and searches for a way to reconcile herself to her tumultuous past and come to terms with mortality

Dance on the Earth

Product Description: In a writing career spanning nearly three decades, Margaret Laurence became one of the most celebrated and widely read authors in the world.In this, her final work, Margaret Laurence reveals the story of her fascinating life, the process of her writing, and the people and emotional journeys which accompanied it...read more

By Margaret Laurence

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9780771047473 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, June 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In a writing career spanning nearly three decades, Margaret Laurence became one of the most celebrated and widely read authors in the world.

The Diviners.

Morag Gunn grows up in a small town on the Canadian prairie, escapes from an unhappy marriage, and returns to rural Canada in hopes of coming to terms with the past (view table of contents)

By Margaret Laurence

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Hardcover:

9780394491561 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1974, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter.

Paperback:

9780226469355, titled "The Diviners" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1993), cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Morag Gunn grows up in a small town on the Canadian prairie, escapes from an unhappy marriage, and returns to rural Canada in hopes of coming to terms with the past

9780860688181, titled "The Diviners" | New edition (Gardners Books, June 1, 1989), cover price $13.15 | also contains Diviners | About this edition: Completing the 'Manawaka' sequence, this is an exploration of a woman's search for her identity.

The Christmas Birthday Story

The story of Christ's nativity and the journey of the three wise men is retold for young readers

By Margaret Laurence

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Library:

9780394943619 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1980, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The author's interpretation of Jesus' birth and the subsequent visit of the three kings.

Six Darn Cows

Product Description: Book by Laurence, Margaret

By Margaret Laurence

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Paperback:

9780888622471 | James Lorimer & Co, June 1, 1979, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Laurence, Margaret

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