So Near is Grandeur
Book Details
| Title: | So Near is Grandeur | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1945 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited | ||||||||||
| Tags: | Canada, fiction, short stories, World War II | ||||||||||
| Description: | This is not a war book, but it is impossible that stories written in the past decade or so should fail to reflect something of those urgent years, almost six of which were occupied by a struggle so vast that the mind is staggered by much more than its statistics ... Back of its beginnings were the apathies and follies at which none of us can afford to throw stones; beyond its ending lies either spiritual greatness—or destruction. This book is concerned more with men than machines, with individuals rather than events. It is stating the obvious to point out that the atomic age will be no wiser nor greater than the individuals who by thought, word or deed—or the absence of them—help to shape and direct it.—Foreword [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 22 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 131  |
Author Bio for Barnard, Leslie Gordon
Leslie Gordon Barnard (1890-1961) was a prolific Canadian short story writer who had several hundred short stories pulished throughout North America, in magazines such as Canadian Magazine, MACLEAN'S, Family Herald, National Home Monthly, and Canadian Home Journal. Three collections of his work were published - One Generation Away in 1931; Jancis in 1935; and So Near is Grandeur in 1945.
Leslie Gordon Barnard's place in Canadian LITERARY HISTORY has been undervalued but he sheer number of short stories Barnard published, however, indicates not only his skill in writing within the genre, but also the high demand for his work by readers. While not highly praised in his lifetime, Leslie Gordon Barnard enjoyed great success, and as critics have begun to recognize the importance of popular fiction as a cultural representation and a form that can capture the mood of an era or generation, Barnard's contributions to it and his place in Canadian literary history are becoming recognized.
Leslie Gordon Barnard served as president of the CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION and president of the Montréal branch of PEN Club.
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