New Canadian Library Explained

Parent:	McClelland & Stewart
Founded:	1958
Founder:	Jack McClelland and Malcolm Ross
Country:	Canada
Headquarters:	Toronto
Publications:	Books

The New Canadian Library is a publishing imprint of the Canadian company McClelland and Stewart. The series aims to present classic works of Canadian literature in paperback.^[1] Each work published in the series includes a short essay by another notable Canadian writer, discussing the historical context and significance of the work. These essays were originally forewords, but after McClelland and Stewart's 1985 sale to Avie Bennett, the prefatory material was abandoned and replaced by afterwords.^[2]

It was founded by Malcolm Ross with the intention of providing affordable material for his students; David Staines has been the general editor of the series since 1986. In 2007, the University of Toronto Press published New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978, a work by Janet Beverly Friskney that provides an account of the New Canadian Library during the years of Ross's editorship.

Titles in the New Canadian Library

Numbered series

Originally, all titles in the series were numbered sequentially.

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	Over Prairie Trails
	Such Is My Beloved
	Literary Lapses
	As for Me and My House
	The Tin Flute
	The Clockmaker
	The Last Barrier and Other Stories
	Barometer Rising
	At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories
	Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
	Habitant Poems
	Thirty Acres
	Earth and High Heaven
	The Man from Glengarry
	Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
	The Stepsure Letters
	More Joy in Heaven
	Wild Geese
	The Master of the Mill
	The Imperialist
	Delight
	The Second Scroll
	The Mountain and the Valley
	The Rich Man
	Where Nests the Water Hen
	The Town Below
	The History of Emily Montague
	My Discovery of England
	Swamp Angel
	Each Man's Son
	Roughing it in the Bush
	White Narcissus
	They Shall Inherit the Earth
	Turvey
	Nonsense Novels
	Grain
	Last of the Curlews
	The Nymph and the Lamp
	Judith Hearne
	The Cashier
	Under the Ribs of Death
	Woodsmen of the West
	Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
	Sarah Binks
	Son of a Smaller Hero
	Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
	Remember Me
	Frenzied Fiction
	Fruits of the Earth
	Settlers of the Marsh
	The Backwoods of Canada
	Music at the Close
	My Remarkable Uncle
	The Double Hook
	Tiger Dunlop's Upper Canada
	Street of Riches
	Short Circuits
	Wacousta
	The Stone Angel
	Further Foolishness
	Marchbanks' Almanack
	The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories
	The Harbor Master
	The Canadian Settler's Guide
	The Golden Dog
	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
	Behind the Beyond
	A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
	Last Leaves
	The Tomorrow-Tamer
	Odysseus Ever Returning
	The Curé of St. Philippe
	The Favourite Game
	Winnowed Wisdom		None
	The Seats of the Mighty
	A Search for America
	The Betrayal
	Mad Shadows
	The Incomparable Atuk
	The Luck of Ginger Coffey
	Essays, Controversies and Poems
	Peace Shall Destroy Many
	A Voice from the Attic
	Next Episode (Prochain épisode)
	Roger Sudden
	Mist on the River
	The Fire-Dwellers
	The Deserter
	Antoinette de Mirecourt
	Allegro
	The End of the World and Other Stories
	In the Village of Viger and Other Stories
	The Edible Woman
	In Search of Myself
	Feast of Stephen		None
	A Bird in the House
	The Wooden Sword
	Pride's Fancy
	Ox Bells and Fireflies
	Above Ground
	New Priest in Conception Bay
	The Flying Years
	Wind Without Rain
	Tête Blanche
	Tay John
	Canadians of Old
	Headwaters of Canadian Literature
	The Blue Mountains of China
	The Hidden Mountain
	The Heart of the Ancient Wood
	A Jest of God
	Self-Condemned
	Dust Over the City
	Our Daily Bread
	The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century
	The Viking Heart
	Down the Long Table
	Glengarry School Days
	The Plouffe Family
	Windflower
	The Disinherited
	The Temptations of Big Bear
	Pandora
	House of Hate
	A Candle to Light the Sun
	This Side Jordan
	The Red Feathers
	I Am Mary Dunne
	The Road Past Altamont
	Knife on the Table
	The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence		None
	Consider Her Ways
	His Majesty's Yankees
	Jean Rivard
	Bogle Corbet
	A Choice of Enemies
	Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada
	The Master's Wife
	The Cruelest Month
	The Atonement of Ashley Morden
	Wild Animals I Have Known
	Scann
	On Poetry and Poets
	Crackpot
	Sawbones Memorial
	The Diviners
	High Bright Buggy Wheels
	Big Lonely (formerly The Lonely Ones)
	Wooden Hunters
	God's Sparrows
	The Outlander
	Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays
	Beautiful Losers
	The Emperor of Ice-Cream
	Garden in the Wind
	The Scorched Wood People
	The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
	Lord Nelson Tavern
	Everything in the Window
	The Camera Always Lies
	The Selena Tree
	Watchers at the Pond
	Two in the Bush and Other Stories
	Bloody Harvest
	The Neighbour and Other Stories
	The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange
	Sandbars
	Selected Stories
	The Angel of the Tar Sands
	The Innocent Traveller
	The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone
	Bear
	Spirit Wrestler
	The Coming of Winter
	Five Legs and Communion
	Laugh with Leacock
	The Book of Eve
	The Channel Shore
	Amongst Thistles and Thorns
	Flowers of Darkness
	The New Ancestors
	Judith
	St. Lawrence Blues
	Blood Ties
	St. Urbain's Horseman
	The Lark in the Clear Air
	Lives of Short Duration
	A Population of One
	Lunatic Villas
	Cocksure
	The Township of Time
	Bayo
	The Sparrow's Fall
	The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
	The Mangan Inheritance
	The Tent Peg

Unnumbered series

Books published in the collection after the sequential numbering ceased were:

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Across the Bridge


Ancient Lineage and Other Stories
Anne of Green Gables
Any Time at All and Other Stories
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories
Black Robe
Deep Hollow Creek
Digging Up the Mountains
Emily Climbs
Emily of New Moon
Emily's Quest

Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace
Execution


For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
Good Bones
Hetty Dorval

Joshua Then and Now

Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
Light Shining Out of Darkness and Other Stories
Love and Salt Water
Man Descending


Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories
Murder in the Dark
My Financial Career and Other Follies
Nights Below Station Street
No Love Lost
Perpetual Motion


Running in the Family


Solomon Gursky Was Here
Spit Delaney's Island

Such a Long Journey
Surfacing
Tales from Firozsha Baag
Tales from the Uncertain Country and Other Stories
Two Solitudes

Who Has Seen the Wind

Poetry collections^[3]

Canadian Poetry: From the Beginnings Through the First World War edited by Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies
Poets Between the Wars edited by Milton Wilson
Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960 - 1970 edited by Eli Mandel
Poets of the Confederation
Masks of Fiction
Masks of Poetry
Poetry of Mid-Century
The Poems of Earle Birney
Nineteenth-Century Narrative Poems
The Poems of Bliss Carman
Poems of Al Purdy
The Damnation of Vancouver
The Selected Poems of Irving Layton

Canadian writers

Marshall McLuhan
E. J. Pratt
Margaret Laurence
Frederick Philip Grove
Leonard Cohen
Mordecai Richler
Stephen Leacock
Hugh MacLennan
Earle Birney
Northrop Frye
Malcolm Lowry
James Reaney
George Woodcock
Farley Mowat
Ernest Buckler
Morley Callaghan
Robertson Davies

External links

Notes and References

Janet B. Friskney, New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978. University of Toronto Press, 2007. .
Janet Friskney, "New Canadian Library," in Benson, Eugene and William Toye [eds.] The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997 (p. 794)
Web site: The NCL Complete Numbered List. https://web.archive.org/web/20180812095412/http://nclcollecting.ca/?page_id=1256. 2018-08-12. nclcollecting.ca.