The Ten Best Canadian Books (a list from 1972)

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"In a recent post I mentioned picking up ten books for a dollar. One was Read Canadian: a book about Canadian Books (James Lewis & Samuel, 1972). At its end we are treated to a list of ‘the ten best (English) Canadian books’ as chosen by its editors Robert Fulford, David Godfrey and Abraham Rotstein, and thirty odd contributors. No criteria for selection was, of course, provided, only a reassurance that ‘The argument about ‘best’ still rages among the jurors and will continue, we hope, everywhere Canadian books are read.’ Here’s the list:"

  1. 1.
    Morley Callaghan's Stories
    by Morley Callaghan

  2. 3.
    Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
    by Northrop Frye

  3. 6.
    The Stone Angel (Phoenix Fiction)
    by Margaret Laurence

  4. 7.
    Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Stephen Leacock

  5. 8.
    The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
    by Marshall McLuhan

  6. 9.
    Collected Poems
    by E. J. Pratt

  7. 10.
    St. Urbain's Horseman
    by Mordecai Richler

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Created by frbrown on May 16, 2011.
 

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