Carol Shields
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1935, Carol Shields moved to Canada at the age of twenty-two, after studying at the University of Exeter in England, and then obtained her M.A. at the University of Ottawa. She started publishing poetry in her thirties, and wrote her first novel, Small Ceremonies, in 1976. Over the next three decades, Shields would become the author of over twenty books, including plays, poetry, essays, short fiction, novels, a book of criticism on Susanna Moodie and a biography of Jane Austen. Her work has been translated into twenty-two languages.
In addition to her writing, Carol Shields worked...
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Swann
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36724-2 (0-307-36724-X)
January 21, 2011 | $22.95
Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987.
Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And...
Written by Carol Shields
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36724-2 (0-307-36724-X)
January 21, 2011 | $22.95
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Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987.
Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Various Miracles
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36723-5 (0-307-36723-1)
October 29, 2010 | $22.00
The stories collected here offer an entrancing look at some of the various miracles of everyday life, the quirks of chance and coincidence, life's setbacks and improvisations. Carol Shields deftly draws us into the lives of a broad range of sharply observed characters, from the brilliant young violinist smothered by an...
Written by Carol Shields
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36723-5 (0-307-36723-1)
October 29, 2010 | $22.00
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The stories collected here offer an entrancing look at some of the various miracles of everyday life, the quirks of chance and coincidence, life's setbacks and improvisations. Carol Shields deftly draws us into the lives of a broad range of sharply observed characters, from the brilliant young violinist smothered by an...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Unless
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36589-7 (0-307-36589-1)
October 8, 2010 | $22.00
“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life...
Written by Carol Shields
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36589-7 (0-307-36589-1)
October 8, 2010 | $22.00
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“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
eBook | 400 pages | New Canadian Library | Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-7710-9371-5 (0-7710-9371-3)
August 3, 2010 | $10.95
In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times.
Invaluable as social history and...
eBook | 400 pages | New Canadian Library | Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-7710-9371-5 (0-7710-9371-3)
August 3, 2010 | $10.95
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In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times.
Invaluable as social history and...
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | New Canadian Library | Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-7710-9370-8 (0-7710-9370-5)
August 3, 2010 | $19.95
In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times.
Invaluable as social history and...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | New Canadian Library | Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-7710-9370-8 (0-7710-9370-5)
August 3, 2010 | $19.95
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In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times.
Invaluable as social history and...
The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-36590-3 (0-307-36590-5)
July 23, 2010 | $22.00
Carol Shields, the Pulitzer Prize-winner author of the novels Unless, The Stone Diaries and Larry’s Party was also a renowned short story writer. Now readers can enjoy all three of Carol Shields’s short story collections - Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival - in one volume...
Written by Carol Shields
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-36590-3 (0-307-36590-5)
July 23, 2010 | $22.00
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Carol Shields, the Pulitzer Prize-winner author of the novels Unless, The Stone Diaries and Larry’s Party was also a renowned short story writer. Now readers can enjoy all three of Carol Shields’s short story collections - Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival - in one volume...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Drama
978-0-307-36587-3 (0-307-36587-5)
June 4, 2010 | $24.95
With a Foreword by the Author
“Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each...
Written by Carol Shields
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Drama
978-0-307-36587-3 (0-307-36587-5)
June 4, 2010 | $24.95
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With a Foreword by the Author
“Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Dropped Threads 2
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Social Science - Women's Studies
978-0-307-36588-0 (0-307-36588-3)
May 28, 2010 | $24.95
The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the “women's network” still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or...
Written by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Social Science - Women's Studies
978-0-307-36588-0 (0-307-36588-3)
May 28, 2010 | $24.95
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The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the “women's network” still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Stone Diaries
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35728-1 (0-307-35728-7)
September 16, 2008 | $21.00
The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century.
Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35728-1 (0-307-35728-7)
September 16, 2008 | $21.00
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The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century.
Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-679-31327-4 (0-679-31327-3)
August 23, 2005 | $22.00
Carol Shields, the Pulitzer Prize-winner author of the novels Unless, The Stone Diaries and Larry’s Party was also a renowned short story writer. Now readers can enjoy all three of Carol Shields’s short story collections - Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival - in one volume...
Written by Carol Shields
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-679-31327-4 (0-679-31327-3)
August 23, 2005 | $22.00
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Carol Shields, the Pulitzer Prize-winner author of the novels Unless, The Stone Diaries and Larry’s Party was also a renowned short story writer. Now readers can enjoy all three of Carol Shields’s short story collections - Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival - in one volume...
Also available as an
eBook.
Unless
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31180-5 (0-679-31180-7)
April 22, 2003 | $22.00
“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life...
Written by Carol Shields
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31180-5 (0-679-31180-7)
April 22, 2003 | $22.00
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“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life...
Also available as an
eBook.
Dropped Threads 2
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Social Science - Women's Studies
978-0-679-31206-2 (0-679-31206-4)
April 8, 2003 | $24.95
The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the “women's network” still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or...
Written by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Social Science - Women's Studies
978-0-679-31206-2 (0-679-31206-4)
April 8, 2003 | $24.95
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The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the “women's network” still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or...
Also available as an
eBook.
Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Drama
978-0-679-31210-9 (0-679-31210-2)
October 22, 2002 | $24.95
With a Foreword by the Author
“Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each...
Written by Carol Shields
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Drama
978-0-679-31210-9 (0-679-31210-2)
October 22, 2002 | $24.95
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With a Foreword by the Author
“Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each...
Also available as an
eBook.
Mansfield Park
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-75781-5 (0-375-75781-3)
October 9, 2001 | $10.00
Through Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen views the social mores of her day and contemplates human nature itself. A shy and sweet-tempered girl adopted by wealthy relations, Fanny is an outsider looking in on an unfamiliar, and often inhospitable, world. But Fanny eventually wins the affection of...
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-75781-5 (0-375-75781-3)
October 9, 2001 | $10.00
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Through Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen views the social mores of her day and contemplates human nature itself. A shy and sweet-tempered girl adopted by wealthy relations, Fanny is an outsider looking in on an unfamiliar, and often inhospitable, world. But Fanny eventually wins the affection of...
Dressing Up for the Carnival
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-679-31094-5 (0-679-31094-0)
February 13, 2001 | $17.95
From one of Canada's best-loved, award-winning authors comes a surprising treasure trove: Carol Shields distilling her wisdom, elegance, insouciant sense of humour and eroticism into twenty-two delightful stories. The title story sets the stage: a Shakespearean prologue in which the narrative flame jumps from character to character, each of them dressed...
Written by Carol Shields
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-679-31094-5 (0-679-31094-0)
February 13, 2001 | $17.95
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From one of Canada's best-loved, award-winning authors comes a surprising treasure trove: Carol Shields distilling her wisdom, elegance, insouciant sense of humour and eroticism into twenty-two delightful stories. The title story sets the stage: a Shakespearean prologue in which the narrative flame jumps from character to character, each of them dressed...
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