Bear

Marian Engel

first published 1976 Quinze, 1984 141 pages

New Canadian Library — book 172

Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. When an unusual field assignment comes her way, she jumps at the chance to travel to a remote island in northern Ontario, where she will spend the summer cataloguing a library that belonged to an eccentric 19th-century colonel. Eager to investigate the estate's curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island h...

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Editions we hold

Bear edition · 2021 · Daunt Books · 9781911547945
Oso edition · 2015 · Impedimenta · 168 pages · 9788415979562
Bear edition · 2014 · McClelland & Stewart · 128 pages · 9780771030130
Bear (Nonpareil books) paperback · 2003 · David R Godine · 144 pages
Ours edition · 1999 · Calmann-Lévy · 208 pages
Ours edition · 1999 · Calmann-Lévy · 208 pages
L'Orso paperback · 1992 · La Tartarura edizioni · 144 pages
Bear paperback · 1990 · McClelland & Stewart Ltd · 152 pages · 9780771099588
Bär edition · 1989 · Rowohlt · 175 pages
Bear edition · 1988 · Pandora · 141 pages
L' ours edition · 1984 · Quinze · 141 pages
Bear edition · 1977 · Routledge and Kegan Paul · 141 pages

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