New Canadian Library

New Canadian Library

Parent company	McClelland & Stewart
Founded	1958
Founder	Jack McClelland and Malcolm Ross
Country of origin	Canada
Headquarters location	Toronto
Publication types	Books
Official website	www.mcclelland.com/NCL/index.html

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.

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

Spine No.	Title	Author	Foreword by
1	Over Prairie Trails	Frederick Philip Grove	Malcolm Ross
2	Such Is My Beloved	Morley Callaghan	Malcolm Ross
3	Literary Lapses	Stephen Leacock	Robertson Davies
4	As for Me and My House	Sinclair Ross	Roy Daniells
5	The Tin Flute	Gabrielle Roy	Hugo McPherson
6	The Clockmaker	Thomas Chandler Haliburton	Robert L. McDougall
7	The Last Barrier and Other Stories	Charles G. D. Roberts	Alec Lucas
8	Barometer Rising	Hugh MacLennan	Hugo McPherson
9	At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories	Thomas Head Raddall	Allan Bevan
10	Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich	Stephen Leacock	Ralph Curry
11	Habitant Poems	William Henry Drummond	Arthur Phelps
12	Thirty Acres	Ringuet	Albert LeGrand
13	Earth and High Heaven	Gwethalyn Graham	Eli Mandel
14	The Man from Glengarry	Ralph Connor	S. Ross Beharriell
15	Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town	Stephen Leacock	Malcolm Ross
16	The Stepsure Letters	Thomas McCulloch	Northrop Frye
17	More Joy in Heaven	Morley Callaghan	Hugo McPherson
18	Wild Geese	Martha Ostenso	Carlyle King
19	The Master of the Mill	Frederick Philip Grove	R. E. Watters
20	The Imperialist	Sara Jeannette Duncan	Claude Bissell
21	Delight	Mazo de la Roche	Desmond Pacey
22	The Second Scroll	A. M. Klein	M. W. Steinberg
23	The Mountain and the Valley	Ernest Buckler	Claude Bissell
24	The Rich Man	Henry Kreisel	John Stedmond
25	Where Nests the Water Hen	Gabrielle Roy	Gordon Roper
26	The Town Below	Roger Lemelin	Glen Shortliffe
27	The History of Emily Montague	Frances Brooke	Carl Klinck
28	My Discovery of England	Stephen Leacock	George Whalley
29	Swamp Angel	Ethel Wilson	Desmond Pacey
30	Each Man's Son	Hugh MacLennan	Alec Lucas
31	Roughing it in the Bush	Susanna Moodie	Carl Klinck
32	White Narcissus	Raymond Knister	Philip Child
33	They Shall Inherit the Earth	Morley Callaghan	F. W. Watt
34	Turvey	Earle Birney	George Woodcock
35	Nonsense Novels	Stephen Leacock	S. Ross Beharriell
36	Grain	Robert J.C. Stead	Thomas Saunders
37	Last of the Curlews	Fred Bodsworth	John Stevens
38	The Nymph and the Lamp	Thomas Head Raddall	John Matthews
39	Judith Hearne	Brian Moore	John Stedmond
40	The Cashier	Gabrielle Roy	W. C. Lougheed
41	Under the Ribs of Death	John Marlyn	Eli Mandel
42	Woodsmen of the West	M. Allerdale Grainger	Rupert Scheider
43	Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy	Stephen Leacock	Robertson Davies
44	Sarah Binks	Paul Hiebert	A. Lloyd Wheeler
45	Son of a Smaller Hero	Mordecai Richler	George Woodcock
46	Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada	Anna Brownell Jameson	Clara Thomas
47	Remember Me	Edward Meade	Norman Shrive
48	Frenzied Fiction	Stephen Leacock	David Dooley
49	Fruits of the Earth	Frederick Philip Grove	M. G. Parks
50	Settlers of the Marsh	Frederick Philip Grove	Thomas Saunders
51	The Backwoods of Canada	Catharine Parr Traill	Clara Thomas
52	Music at the Close	Edward McCourt	Allan Bevan
53	My Remarkable Uncle	Stephen Leacock	John Stevens
54	The Double Hook	Sheila Watson	John Grube
55	Tiger Dunlop's Upper Canada	William Dunlop	Carl Klinck
56	Street of Riches	Gabrielle Roy	Brandon Conron
57	Short Circuits	Stephen Leacock	David Dooley
58	Wacousta	John Richardson	Carl Klinck
59	The Stone Angel	Margaret Laurence	W. H. New
60	Further Foolishness	Stephen Leacock	D. W. Cole
61	Marchbanks' Almanack	Robertson Davies	Gordon Roper
62	The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories	Sinclair Ross	Margaret Laurence
63	The Harbor Master	Theodore Goodridge Roberts	Desmond Pacey
64	The Canadian Settler's Guide	Catharine Parr Traill	Clara Thomas
65	The Golden Dog	William Kirby	Derek Crawley
66	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Mordecai Richler	Allan Bevan
67	Behind the Beyond	Stephen Leacock	Donald Cameron
68	A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder	James De Mille	R. E. Watters
69	Last Leaves	Stephen Leacock	J. M. Robinson
70	The Tomorrow-Tamer	Margaret Laurence	Clara Thomas
71	Odysseus Ever Returning	George Woodcock	W. H. New
72	The Curé of St. Phillipe	Francis William Grey	Rupert Scheider
73	The Favourite Game	Leonard Cohen	Rowland J. Smith
74	Winnowed Wisdom	Stephen Leacock	None
75	The Seats of the Mighty	Gilbert Parker	Elizabeth Waterston
76	A Search for America	Frederick Philip Grove	Stanley E. McMullin
77	The Betrayal	Henry Kreisel	Sidney Warhaft
78	Mad Shadows	Marie-Claire Blais	Naïm Kattan
79	The Incomparable Atuk	Mordecai Richler	Malcolm Ross
80	The Luck of Ginger Coffey	Brian Moore	Keath Fraser
81	Essays, Controversies and Poems	John Sutherland	Miriam Waddington
82	Peace Shall Destroy Many	Rudy Wiebe	J. M. Robinson
83	A Voice from the Attic	Robertson Davies	Robert Cockburn
84	Prochain Episode	Hubert Aquin	Ronald Sutherland
85	Roger Sudden	Thomas Head Raddall	J. R. Leitold
86	Mist on the River	Hubert Evans	W. H. New
87	The Fire-Dwellers	Margaret Laurence	Allan Bevan
88	The Deserter	Douglas LePan	F. W. Watt
89	Antoinette de Mirecourt	Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	Carl Klinck
90	Allegro	Félix Leclerc	Elizabeth Jones
91	The End of the World and Other Stories	Mavis Gallant	Robert Weaver
92	In the Village of Viger and Other Stories	Duncan Campbell Scott	Stanley L. Dragland
93	The Edible Woman	Margaret Atwood	Alan Dawe
94	In Search of Myself	Frederick Philip Grove	D. O. Spettigue
95	Feast of Stephen	Stephen Leacock	None
96	A Bird in the House	Margaret Laurence	Robert Gibbs
97	The Wooden Sword	Edward McCourt	Winnifred Bogaards
98	Pride's Fancy	Thomas Head Raddall	Fred Cogswell
99	Ox Bells and Fireflies	Ernest Buckler	Alan Young
100	Above Ground	Jack Ludwig	Margaret Laurence
101	New Priest in Conception Bay	Robert Lowell	Patrick O'Flaherty
102	The Flying Years	Frederick Niven	Jan de Bruyn
103	Wind Without Rain	Selwyn Dewdney	John Stevens
104	Tête Blanche	Marie-Claire Blais	Philip Stratford
105	Tay John	Howard O'Hagan	Patricia Morley
106	Canadians of Old	Philippe Aubert de Gaspé	Clara Thomas
107	Headwaters of Canadian Literature	Archibald MacMechan	M. G. Parks
108	The Blue Mountains of China	Rudy Wiebe	W. J. Keith
109	The Hidden Mountain	Gabrielle Roy	M. J. Edwards
110	The Heart of the Ancient Wood	Charles G. D. Roberts	Joseph Gold
111	A Jest of God	Margaret Laurence	G. D. Killam
112	Self-Condemned	Wyndham Lewis	Rowland J. Smith
113	Dust Over the City	André Langevin	Ronald Sutherland
114	Our Daily Bread	Frederick Philip Grove	D. O. Spettigue
115	The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century	George Woodcock	George Woodcock
116	The Viking Heart	Laura Goodman Salverson	Alison Hopwood
117	Down the Long Table	Earle Birney	Bruce Nesbitt
118	Glengarry School Days	Ralph Connor	S. Ross Beharriell
119	The Plouffe Family	Roger Lemelin	John Moss
120	Windflower	Gabrielle Roy	Lorraine McMullen
121	The Disinherited	Matt Cohen	John Moss
122	The Temptations of Big Bear	Rudy Wiebe	Allan Bevan
123	Pandora	Sylvia Fraser	David Staines
124	House of Hate	Percy James	Margaret Laurence
125	A Candle to Light the Sun	Patricia Blondal	Laurence Ricou
126	This Side Jordan	Margaret Laurence	G. D. Killam
127	The Red Feathers	Theodore Goodridge Roberts	Martin Ware
128	I Am Mary Dunne	Brian Moore	Alan Kennedy
129	The Road Past Altamont	Gabrielle Roy	Joyce Marshall
130	Knife on the Table	Jacques Godbout	Gillian Davies
131	The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence	Clara Thomas	None
132	Consider Her Ways	Frederick Philip Grove	D. O. Spettigue
133	His Majesty's Yankees	Thomas Head Raddall	James Gray
134	Jean Rivard	Antoine Gérin-Lajoie	Vida Bruce
135	Bogle Corbet	John Galt	Elizabeth Waterston
136	A Choice of Enemies	Mordecai Richler	Bruce Stovel
137	Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada	E. K. Brown	David Staines
138	The Master's Wife	Andrew Macphail	Ian Ross Robertson
139	The Cruelest Month	Ernest Buckler	Alan Young
140	The Atonement of Ashley Morden	Fred Bodsworth	D. W. Cole
141	Wild Animals I Have Known	Ernest Thompson Seton	Alec Lucas
142	Scann	Robert Harlow	Robert Diotte
143	On Poetry and Poets	A. J. M. Smith	A. J. M. Smith
144	Crackpot	Adele Wiseman	Margaret Laurence
145	Sawbones Memorial	Sinclair Ross	Lorraine McMullen
146	The Diviners	Margaret Laurence	David Staines
147	High Bright Buggy Wheels	Luella Creighton	Rae McCarthy Macdonald
148	Big Lonely (formerly The Lonely Ones)	James Bacque	D. M. R. Bentley
149	Wooden Hunters	Matt Cohen	John Moss
150	God's Sparrows	Philip Child	Dennis Duffy
151	The Outlander	Germaine Guèvremont	Anthony Mollica
152	Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays	Mordecai Richler	Robert Fulford

External links

• New Canadian Library web site at McClelland and Stewart