title: The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
author:  Ruth Panofsky 
description: Panofsky has produced a valuable and insightful account of the way handful of visionary men worked hard to shape a Canadian Literary style and self-image. (Charlotte Gray <i>Canadas History Magazine February-March 2013</i>)<br /><br />Panofsy has traced the threads of the stories from Toronto to London and New York and back again, and as a result the reader is provided with a coherent and enlightening picture of Macmillan and Company in Canada. (Chester Gryski <i>Amphora: The Journal of Alcuin Society, vol 161: Summer 2012</i>)<br /><br />
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  IMPURITY
  
  A Novel
  
  LARRY TREMBLAY
  
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