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1951 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1951 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1951 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Loved and the LostMorley CallaghanTo be compared with Chekhov, to be compared with Turgenev, thats what the greatest man of American letters of our time, Edmund Wilson, said when this Morley Callaghan masterpiece appeared in the early fifties. With the story in Montreal, young Peggy Sande...Amazon
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1951 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1951 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1951 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Mulgrave RoadCharles BruceThe poetry of Charles Bruce resonates with the sights and sounds of the Maritimes. Unlike the modernist poets of his time, Bruce embraced rural settings, tactile imagery, structural simplicity and direct language. The Essential Charles Bruce introduces the...Amazon
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1952 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1952 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe PillarDavid WalkerAt the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others...Amazon
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1952 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1952 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerJohn A. Macdonald, The Young PoliticianDonald G. CreightonJohn A. Macdonalds flamboyant personality dominated Canadian public life from the years preceding Confederation to the end of the 19th century. Probably the greatest Canadian biography yet published in English - Dictionary of Canadian Biography....AmazonThe Incredible CanadianBruce Hutchison...Amazon
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1952 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1952 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerTowards the Last SpikeE.J. PrattThe purpose of The Selected Poems of E.J. Pratt is to introduce Pratts poems to the college and university student, to provide the kind of information needed for an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratts poems chosen o...Amazon
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