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Ralph Connor

Glengarry School Days

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Ralph Connor is the pseudonym of Charles William Gordon, a Canadian Presbyterian minister who put his talent as a writer in the service of his Church. Connor started writing in order to obtain the money he needed to finance his missionary work and he quickly became the most well-known Canadian author of his time, both in Canada and abroad. Glengarry School Days, first published in 1902, is a series of 15 sketches about boyhood in rural Ontario, Canada in the 1870’s – a novel that depicts rural life through the enthusiastic eyes of a young boy, but not lacking social criticism either.The sketches that make up the novel present milestone events in the life of a boy from a small frontier settlement. Living conditions are harsh and the community lives by rigid rules, the young boy trying to make his own way among them. The novel is written in a truly captivating style – the adventures, the mishaps and the characters are all described in a realistic way, but not lacking boyish mischief and a kind of carefree enthusiasm. The stories are juxtaposed in chronological order – the characters get older with each sketch and as they age, they also become wiser. In terms of storyline, Glengarry School Days comes before another novel by Ralph Connor, entitled The Man from Glengarry, even though the latter was published one year before School Days. Though the two novels do not feature the same protagonist, Glengarry School Days is often considered to be a kind of a prequel to the second novel that depicts the journey of the protagonist as he is trying his ideals in the tough real world, both books offering great entertainment and lots of information about what life was really like in Ontario at the end of the 19th century.
ISBN
1775427587 / 9781775427582
Weight
3.5 oz.
Dimensions
7.5 x 5.5 in.

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