A Father's Kingdom
This small collection of stories that were published between 1938 and 1980 includes a remarkable narrative range, from the closely observed realism of “Rough Answer,” Sheila Watson’s first story, through four stories which represent members of the family of Sophocles’ Oedipus as contemporary and naturalized, to the ritualized mystery of “And the Four Animals.” A Father’s Kingdom is an original New Canadian Library collection.
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September 21, 2010Sheila Watson was born in New Westminster, B.C., in 1909. After studying at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, she moved to Calgary in the 1950s, where she wrote much of her novel The Double Hook. In 1961, with colleagues at the University of Alberta, she founded and edited White Pelican, an avant-garde journal of literature and the visual arts. In 1992, after her retirement to Nanaimo, B.C., she published Deep Hollow Creek, a novel she had written in the 1930s. Sheila Watson died in Nanaimo, B.C., in 1998.
The Double Hook
Sheila Watson
A Father's Kingdom
Sheila Watson, Afterword by Glenn Willmott
Deep Hollow Creek
Sheila Watson, Afterword by Jane Urquhart
Wacousta
John Richardson
The Double Hook
Sheila Watson
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Stephen Leacock, Seth
The Stone Angel
Margaret Laurence
Roughing It in the Bush
Susanna Moodie
Son of a Smaller Hero
Mordecai Richler
The Acrobats
Mordecai Richler
Love and Salt Water
Ethel Wilson
The Kissing Man
George Elliott
Ancient Lineage and Other Stories
Morley Callaghan
Blood Ties
David Adams Richards
Lives of Short Duration
David Adams Richards
The Coming of Winter
David Adams Richards
The Moslem Wife and Other Stories
Mavis Gallant