title: Two Solitudes (New Canadian Library)
author: Hugh Maclennan
description: "Canada should stage a coming-of-age party this year. We have produced two novels of the full stature of manhood [including] Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes ... Here is the substance of Canada, her countryside, her cities, her conflicting cultures, and, above all, her people."<br /><br />"Two Solitudes is the most impressive book that comes within my range this year ... The general theme of the meeting of the two cultures is excellent."
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  [Dedication](index_split_003.html#filepos1606)
  
  To my family, Mig, Jessie & Luke
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Epigraph](index_split_003.html#filepos1697)
  
  Down in the angle at Montreal, on the island about which the two rivers join,
  there is little of this sense of new and endless space. Two old races and
  religions meet here and live their separate legends, side by side. If this
  sprawling half-continent has a heart, here it is. Its pulse throbs out along
  the rivers and railroads; slow, reluctant and rarely simple, a double beat, a
  self-moved reciprocation.
  
  —HUGH MACLENNAN, TWO
  
  
  SOLITUDES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [Cover](9780062998323_Cover.xhtml#cover)
  
  [Title Page](index_split_000.html#filepos167)
  
  [Dedication](index_split_001.html#filepos302)
  
  [Epigraph](index_split_002.html#filepos513)
  
  [1982](index_split_004.html#filepos7324)
  
  [Part I: 1992–1995](index_split_005.html#filepos30704)
  
  > [Chapter 1](index_split_006.html#filepos30934)
  
  > [Chapter 2](index_split_00