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Alice Munro


Now 78, Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published fourteen previous books — Dance of the Happy Shades; Lives of Girls and Women, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Friend of My Youth; Open Secrets; Selected Stories; The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; The View from Castle Rock; and Alice Munro’s Best. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the recent Man...

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The Equations of Love
Written by Ethel Wilson
Afterword by Alice Munro

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9479-8 (0-7710-9479-5)

January 5, 2010 | $19.95

(Available January 5, 2010)


In the two novellas that make up The Equations of Love, Ethel Wilson describes ordinary people in perilous circumstances with extraordinary insight and compassion. “Tuesday and Wednesday” reconstructs the events of two days in the life of Mort and Myrtle Johnson, whose uninspired marriage is strangely transformed by the tragic intervention...

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Too Much Happiness
Written by Alice Munro

Hardcover | 320 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction
978-0-7710-6529-3 (0-7710-6529-9)

August 25, 2009 | $32.99



An international literary event: Ten new stories from a beloved and award-winning author.

This stunning collection of new stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in “Alice Munro Country” in Ontario or in B.C....

Also available as an eBook.

Too Much Happiness
Written by Alice Munro

eBook | pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction
978-1-55199-305-8 (1-55199-305-8)

August 25, 2009 | $32.99



An international literary event: Ten new stories from a beloved and award-winning author.

This stunning collection of new stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in “Alice Munro Country” in Ontario or in B.C....

Also available as a hardcover.

The View From Castle Rock
Written by Alice Munro

eBook | 368 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction
978-1-55199-271-6 (1-55199-271-X)

November 19, 2008 | $34.99



A new collection of stories by Alice Munro is always a major event. This new collection — her most personal to date — is no exception.

Alice Munro’s stories are always wonderful and so ingrained with truths about life that readers always want to know where they came from. In this book...


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Alice Munro's Best
Written by Alice Munro
Introduction by Margaret Atwood

Hardcover | 536 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-6520-0 (0-7710-6520-5)

October 28, 2008 | $34.99



In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. . . . Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.”

This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls...


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Emily of New Moon
Written by L.M. Montgomery
Afterword by Alice Munro

Trade Paperback | 408 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-9355-5 (0-7710-9355-1)

December 4, 2007 | $17.95



Lucy Maud Montgomery has been beloved by generations of readers for her Anne of Green Gables stories. In the celebrated Emily trilogy, of which Emily of New Moon is the first volume, Montgomery draws a more realistic portrait of a young girl’s life on Prince Edward Island. The twin threads of...

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No Love Lost
Written by Alice Munro
Afterword by Jane Urquhart

Paperback | 432 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-7710-3481-7 (0-7710-3481-4)

April 8, 2003 | $12.95



Alice Munro is universally acknowledged as the finest short fiction writer in English. Bringing together ten incomparable stories from six different collections, No Love Lost confirms her pre-eminent status. Focusing on the many paths of falling in love, each of these stories of ordinary people reveals new truths about people as...


The Love of a Good Woman
Written by Alice Munro

Hardcover | 352 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-6685-6 (0-7710-6685-6)

September 26, 1998 | $32.99



All of these eight wonderful stories are about what people will do for love, and the unexpected routes their passion will force them to take.

An old landlady in Vancouver who alarms the just-married narrator with her prim advice about married life - and “the peculiar threat” of a china cabinet that...


The Equations of Love
Written by Ethel Wilson
Afterword by Alice Munro

Paperback | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8954-1 (0-7710-8954-6)

September 1, 1990 | $6.95



In the two novellas that make up The Equations of Love, Ethel Wilson describes ordinary people in perilous circumstances with extraordinary insight and compassion. “Tuesday and Wednesday” reconstructs the events of two days in the life of Mort and Myrtle Johnson, whose uninspired marriage is strangely transformed by the tragic intervention...

Also available as a trade paperback.

Emily of New Moon
Written by L.M. Montgomery
Afterword by Alice Munro

Paperback | 368 pages | New Canadian Library | Juvenile Fiction; Juvenile Fiction - Classics; Juvenile Fiction - Girls & Women
978-0-7710-9979-3 (0-7710-9979-7)

February 1, 1989 | $7.95



Lucy Maud Montgomery has been beloved by generations of readers for her Anne of Green Gables stories. In the celebrated Emily trilogy, of which Emily of New Moon is the first volume, Montgomery draws a more realistic portrait of a young girl’s life on Prince Edward Island. The twin threads of...

Also available as a trade paperback.

              
              



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