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Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War, #51
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This book reminded me quite a lot of Moby-Dick except instead of whaling, the men are engaged in logging. We don't get the minutiae of the procedure we get from Melville (thank goodness), as the focus is rather on the character of the men who work on the frontiers of civilisation and the culture which they have constructed. It is quite modern in tone--a precursor to the unembellished prose of later decades--and very episodic. It has the feel of a memoir rather than a novel. The protagonist is li
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Feb 24, 2011
Holly
marked it as to-read
