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The 15 sketches that make up Glengarry School Days look back affectionately on childhood in Ontario at the time of Confederation. Yet behind Connor’s delightful account of boyhood enthusiasms – and his clear desire for a more orderly and courageous world – lie glimpses of the moral rigidity that also characterized homesteading life in early Canada.Wildly popular when first published in 1902, Glengarry School Days still captivates readers with its detailed portrait of children and their misadventures.

Fifteen sketches detail the misadventures of schoolchildren during the pioneer days in Ontario, Canada. Detailing both the mischievous adventures of the youths alongside depictions of life in Canada at the time of Confederation, Glengarry School Days is a delight for readers both young and old.Based on the author’s own experiences growing up in Glengarry County, Glengarry School Days was one of many works written by Ralph Connor, who became one of the most popular Canadian authors of the early twentieth century.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The 15 sketches that make up Glengarry School Days look back affectionately on childhood in Ontario at the time of Confederation. Yet behind Connor’s delightful account of boyhood enthusiasms – and his clear desire for a more orderly and courageous world – lie glimpses of the moral rigidity that also characterized homesteading life in early Canada.Wildly popular when first published in 1902, Glengarry School Days still captivates readers with its detailed portrait of children and their misadventures.

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.