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With its curious mixture of adventure, natural history and satire this early Canadian novel has become a landmark work of fantasy and science fiction.
Price: $43.95
Pages: 389
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Series: Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts
Publication Date:
15 January 1986
ISBN: 9780773521674
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POETRY / General, FICTION / Fantasy / General
JAMES DE MILLE was born in Saint John, NB, in 1833, and educated at Acadia College, Wolfville, NS, and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. He taught classics at Acadia College, and rhetoric and history at Dalhousie College in Halifax. He had a successful career as a prolific and popular novelist. He died in 1880, and his best known novel, "A Stange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder," was first published posthumously in 1888.