New Canadian Library

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. 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.^[1]

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

Novels and short story collections

• Hubert Aquin, Next Episode
• Margaret Atwood:
  • The Edible Woman, afterword by Linda Hutcheon
  • Good Bones, afterword by Rosemary Sullivan
  • Murder in the Dark, afterword by Steven Heighton
  • Surfacing, afterword by Marie-Claire Blais
• Yves Beauchemin, The Alley Cat, afterword by Kenneth Radu
• Earle Birney, Turvey, afterword by Al Purdy
• Neil Bissoondath, Digging Up the Mountains, afterword by David Staines
• Marie-Claire Blais:
  • Mad Shadows, afterword by Daphne Marlatt
  • A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, afterword by Nicole Brossard
• Fred Bodsworth, Last of the Curlews, originally with an introduction by John Stevens; later reissued with, instead, an afterword by Graeme Gibson
• Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague, afterword by Lorraine McMullen
• Ernest Buckler, The Mountain and the Valley, afterword by Robert Gibbs
• Morley Callaghan:
  • Ancient Lineage and Other Stories, selected by and an Afterword by William Kennedy
  • More Joy in Heaven, afterword by Margaret Avison
  • Such Is My Beloved, afterword by Milton Wilson
  • They Shall Inherit the Earth, afterword by Ray Ellenwood
• Leonard Cohen:
  • Beautiful Losers, afterword by Stan Dragland
  • The Favourite Game, afterword by Paul Quarrington
• Ralph Connor:
  • Glengarry School Days, afterword by John Lennox
  • The Man from Glengarry, afterword by Alison Gordon
• James De Mille, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, introduction by R. Watters (out of print)
• William Henry Drummond, Habitant Poems (out of print)
• Sara Jeannette Duncan, The Imperialist, afterword by Janette Turner Hospital
• George Elliott, The Kissing Man, afterword by Bonnie Burnard
• Marian Engel, Bear, afterword by Aritha van Herk
• Sylvia Fraser, Pandora, afterword by Lola Lemire Tostevin
• Mavis Gallant:
  • Across the Bridge, afterword by Robertson Davies
  • The Moslem Wife and Other Stories, selection and afterword by Mordecai Richler
• Graeme Gibson, Perpetual Motion afterword by Ramsay Cook
• Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven (out of print)
• Martin Allerdale Grainger, Woodsmen of the West, afterword by Caroline Adderson
• Frederick Philip Grove:
  • Fruits of the Earth, afterword by Rudy Wiebe
  • Over Prairie Trails, afterword by Patrick Lane
  • A Search for America, afterword by W. H. New
  • Settlers of the Marsh, afterword by Kristjana Gunnars
• Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, afterword by Robert L. McDougall
• Paul Hiebert, Sarah Binks, afterword by Charles Gordon
• Jack Hodgins:
  • The Invention of the World, afterword by George McWhirter
  • The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, afterword by Iain Higgins
  • Spit Delaney's Island, afterword by Robert Bringhurst
• Hugh Hood, Light Shining Out of Darkness and Other Stories, afterword by John Metcalf
• Anna Brownell Jameson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, afterword by Clara Thomas
• A. M. Klein, The Second Scroll, afterword by Seymour Mayne
• Raymond Knister, White Narcissus, afterword by Morley Callaghan
• Margaret Laurence:
  • A Bird in the House, afterword by Isabel Huggan
  • The Diviners, afterword by Timothy Findley
  • The Fire-Dwellers, afterword by Sylvia Fraser
  • A Jest of God, afterword by Margaret Atwood
  • The Prophet's Camel Bell, afterword by Clara Thomas
  • The Stone Angel, afterword by Adele Wiseman
  • This Side Jordan, afterword by George Woodcock
  • The Tomorrow-Tamer, afterword by Guy Vanderhaeghe
• Stephen Leacock:
  • Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, afterword by Gerald Lynch
  • Literary Lapses, afterword by Robertson Davies
  • My Financial Career and Other Follies, selection and afterword by David Staines
  • My Remarkable Uncle, afterword by Barbara Nimmo
  • Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, afterword by Jack Hodgins
• Rosanna Leprohon, Antoinette de Mirecourt, afterword by Heather Murray
• Hugh MacLennan:
  • Barometer Rising, afterword by Alistair MacLeod
  • Each Man's Son, afterword by Alec Lucas
  • Two Solitudes, afterword by Robert Kroetsch
• Alistair MacLeod:
  • As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories, afterword by Jane Urquhart
  • The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, afterword by Joyce Carol Oates
• John Marlyn, Under the Ribs of Death, originally with an introduction by Eli Mandel; later reissued with, instead, an afterword by Neil Bissoondath
• Joyce Marshall, Any Time At All and Other Stories, selection and afterword by Timothy Findley
• Colin McDougall, Execution, afterword by Warren Cariou
• John Metcalf, Selected Stories (out of print)
• W.O. Mitchell, Who Has Seen the Wind, afterword by Timothy Findley
• Rohinton Mistry:
  • A Fine Balance, afterword by Pico Iyer
  • Such a Long Journey, afterword by Alberto Manguel
  • Tales from Firozsha Baag, afterword by W. H. New
• Lucy Maud Montgomery:
  • Anne of Green Gables, afterword by Margaret Atwood
  • Emily Climbs, afterword by Jane Urquhart
  • Emily of New Moon, afterword by Alice Munro
  • Emily's Quest, afterword by P. K. Page
• Susanna Moodie:
  • Life in the Clearings versus the Bush, afterword by Carol Shields
  • Roughing It in the Bush, afterword by Susan Glickman
• Brian Moore:
  • Black Robe, afterword by Marilyn Bowering
  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, afterword by Janette Turner Hospital
  • The Luck of Ginger Coffey, afterword by Keath Fraser
• Alice Munro, No Love Lost, afterword by Jane Urquhart
• Howard O'Hagan, Tay John, afterword by Michael Ondaatje
• Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, afterword by Nicole Brossard
• Martha Ostenso, Wild Geese, afterword by David Arnason
• Thomas H. Raddall, At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories (out of print)
• David Adams Richards:
  • Blood Ties, afterword by Merna Summers
  • The Coming of Winter, afterword by Rick Hillis
  • Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, afterword by Wayne Johnston
  • For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down, afterword by Joan Clark
  • Lives of Short Duration, afterword by Alistair MacLeod
  • Nights Below Station Street, afterword by P. K. Page
• John Richardson, Wacousta, afterword by James Reaney
• Mordecai Richler:
  • The Acrobats, afterword by Ted Kotcheff
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, afterword by David Carpenter
  • A Choice of Enemies, afterword by Neil Besner
  • Cocksure, afterword by Margaret Drabble
  • The Incomparable Atuk, afterword by Peter Gzowski
  • Joshua Then and Now, afterword by Eric Wright
  • St. Urbain's Horseman, afterword by Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • Son of a Smaller Hero, afterword by Ray Smith
  • The Street, afterward by William Weintraub
• Ringuet, Thirty Acres, afterword by Antoine Sirois
• Charles G. D. Roberts, The Last Barrier and Other Stories (out of print)
• Sinclair Ross:
  • As For Me and My House,, afterword by Robert Kroetsch
  • The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories, afterword by Margaret Laurence
• Gabrielle Roy:
  • The Cashier, afterword by Marie-Claire Blais
  • Garden in the Wind, afterword by Dennis Cooley
  • The Road Past Altamont, afterword by Joyce Marshall
  • Street of Riches, afterword by Miriam Waddington
  • The Tin Flute, afterword by Philip Stratford
  • Where Nests the Water Hen, afterword by Sandra Birdsell
  • Windflower, afterword by Phyllis Webb
• Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger, afterword by Tracy Ware
• Ernest Thompson Seton, Wild Animals I Have Known, afterword by David Arnason
• Robert Stead, Grain, afterword by Laurie Ricou
• John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright, afterword by Renée Hulan
• Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada, afterword by D.M.R. Bentley
• Jane Urquhart, The Whirlpool afterword by Lynn Coady
• Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending, afterword by Leo McKay, Jr.
• Sheila Watson:
  • The Double Hook, afterword by F.T. Flahiff
  • Deep Hollow Creek, afterword by Jane Urquhart
  • A Father's Kingdom, afterword by Glenn Willmott
• Rudy Wiebe:
  • The Temptations of Big Bear, afterword by Robert Kroetsch
  • The Blue Mountains of China, afterword by Eva-Marie Kroller
• Ethel Wilson:
  • The Equations of Love, afterword by Alice Munro
  • Hetty Dorval, afterword by Northrop Frye
  • The Innocent Traveller, afterword by P. K. Page
  • Love and Salt Water, afterword by Anne Marriott
  • Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories, afterword by David Stouck
  • Swamp Angel, afterword by George Bowering
• Adele Wiseman,
  • Crackpot, afterword by Margaret Laurence
  • The Sacrifice

Poetry collections

• 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

The Ross-McClelland Years: 1958-1978 New Canadian Library Titles

Notes

External links

• New Canadian Library web site at McClelland and Stewart