Crime Where the Nights are Long: Canadian Stories of Crime and Adventure from the Golden Age of Storytelling
By Dundurn
()
About this ebook
The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called "The Golden Age of the Storytellers." These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to entertain, spinning yarns to be printed and read, just as their predecessors, the minstrels and bards, recited and were listened to. Through their countless tales of adventure and derring-do they brought romance and colour to the lives of those who could do no more than dream. This was the age of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. Canadian writers contributed in no small way to the cornucopia of romance and adventure the reading public could find at the newsstands and bookstores. This is the period of which Messrs Roper, Beharriell, and Scheider in Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English (2d ed., 1976) say "the Canadian fiction-writers between 1880 and 1920 were read more widely by their contemporaries, inside and outside Canada, than have been the Canadian fiction-writers - collectively - since." Literary historian David Skene-Melvin, the leading authority on Canadian criminous literature, has garnered from amongst the collections and magazines of the period a second anthology of stirring tales by Grant Allen, Robert Barr, Algernon Blackwood, W. H. Blake, Susan Carleton, William Henry Drummond, William Fraser, Harvey O’Higgins, Sir Gilbert Parker, Hesketh Pearson, Alan Sullivan, and others, some never before anthologized, guaranteed to set the blood a-racing and stimulate the imagination.
Related to Crime Where the Nights are Long
Related ebooks
The Second Algernon Blackwood MEGAPACK® Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSWEENEY TODD The String of Pearls: The Original Victorian Classic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amra, Vol 2, No 38: February, 1966 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Chicago of Europe: And Other Tales of Foreign Travel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bloody York Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecret Tales of the Arctic Trails: Stories of Crime and Adventure in Canada's Far North Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMudlarks and the Silent Highwayman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSherlock's Sisters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJolly Roger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile: A Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death of Anton Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sword & Sorcery Anthology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Night-Born (Annotated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Flying Inn Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Rolling Stones Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Salzburg Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMurder: Twelve True Stories of Homicide in Canada Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fire in the Thatch: A Devon Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Dominion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStill Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hunting of the Snark Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTom Morison's Golden Christmas: And Other Lost Australian Goldmining Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lost Gallows: A London Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tale of Two Cities Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsColonial Horrors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek; Or, Fighting the Sheep Herders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Notes for General Circulation (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bravo of London: And ‘The Bunch of Violets’ Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMr. Darwin's Shooter: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Mystery For You
Pretty Girls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summit Lake Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Good Daughter: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Murdery Mystery Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Flight: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life We Bury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5False Witness: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5None of This Is True: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hidden Staircase: Nancy Drew #2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Club: A Reese's Book Club Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The River We Remember: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Pharmacist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kept Woman: A Will Trent Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jack Reacher: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Dark Side: A Collection of Mysteries & Thrillers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hunting Party: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Did I Kill You?: A Thriller Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Woman in the Library: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition): An Easy Rawlins Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Short Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The People Next Door Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Crime Where the Nights are Long
0 ratings0 reviews