Six undelivered Norton lectures sum up the nature of literature and describe characteristics that the author would like to see bequeathed to those who live in the next millennium

Leon Rooke is one of Canada's preeminent fiction innovators, a master of the short form, and a literary godfather to scores of writers. Here, for the first time, is the ...

Ella Mae Hopkins, a monstrously fat but adorable woman living in a shanty house with her husband, Edward, and little boys, dreams of a more beautiful life and a wonderful figure

'Leon Rooke's novels are wondrous enough for anyone's taste, but his stories are wondrous strange. In the last two decades his literally hundreds of stories have made him into ...

"Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century", Historical Inevitability", "Two Concepts of Liberty", "John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life". These four essays deal with the ...

Recounts the adventures of a band of Jews--former Soviet soldiers and concentration camp survivors--who battle the retreating German army in the closing days of World War II