The Homesteaders / / Robert J.C. Stead.
When Robert Stead’s novel The Homesteaders first appeared in serial form in 1916, it was introduced as ‘the kind of fiction Canadian authors ought to write,’ and the Canadian public agreed. By 1922, when Stead’s popularity was at its height, the novel was in its fifth printing. Despite the war, revi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1973 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Heritage
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Introduction
- Select Bibliography
- CONTENTS
- PRELUDE
- I. THE BECK OF FORTUNE
- II. INTO THE WILDERNESS
- III. PRAIRIE LAND
- IV. ROUGHING IT
- V. THE SHORES OF THE INFINITE
- VI. IN THE SPELL OF THE MIRAGE
- VII. THE CALL OF THE FARTHER WEST
- VIII. INTO THE NIGHT
- IX. CRUMBLING CASTLES
- X. INTO THE FARTHER WEST
- XI. THE PRICE OF "SUCCESS"
- XII. A WHIFF OF NEW ATMOSPHERE
- XIII. SETTING THE TRAP
- XIV. THE GAMBLERS
- XV. THE LURE OF EASY MONEY
- XVI. THE HONOUR OF THIEVES
- XVII. THE FIGHT IN THE FOOTHILLS
- XVIII. CONVERGING TRAILS
- XIX. PRISONERS OF FATE
- XX. AN INQUEST-AND SOME EXPLANATIONS