The ten stories in In the Village of Viger portray the life of a rural village as it faces the darkness of its own future. An established milliner, Madame Laroque, is upset by the advent of a younger, more popular rival. An innkeeper's obsession with the Franco-Prussian War drives his descent into madness. A gardener longs to return to the village in France where his mother was born. At once comical, farcical, and tragic, this superb collection, first published in 1896, anticipates later collections of linked short ...
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The ten stories in In the Village of Viger portray the life of a rural village as it faces the darkness of its own future. An established milliner, Madame Laroque, is upset by the advent of a younger, more popular rival. An innkeeper's obsession with the Franco-Prussian War drives his descent into madness. A gardener longs to return to the village in France where his mother was born. At once comical, farcical, and tragic, this superb collection, first published in 1896, anticipates later collections of linked short stories including Alice Munro's Who Do You Think You Are? and Margaret Laurence's A Bird in the House .
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Thoreau MacDonald. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 12 vo. 114 clean, unmarked pages...First Canadian issue of the famous poet's collection of 10 short stories; originally published in the United States in 1896. "Published March, 1945" (title page verso).
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MaCDONALD, Thoreau. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. (CAD) First Canadian Edition Owner's inscription to endpaper, no other markings, Near Fine in about VG Dj with some wear to top edge of rear panel of Dj and tiny spot to back panel, some small edge tears to Dj. 8vo. 114 pp. First Canadian edition, a complete reprint of the original published by Messrs. Copeland and Day, Boston, 1896. Black and white illustrations by Thoreau MacDonald. A collection of sort stories, vignettes of French Canadian life. [1.5 JM LVR 201/b2.
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