New Canadian Library

The New Canadian Library is a publishing imprint of the Canadian company McClelland and Stewart. The series aims to present classic works of Canadian literature in paperback. Each work published in the series includes a short essay by another notable Canadian writer, discussing the historical context and significance of the work. These essays were originally forewords, but after McClelland and Stewart's 1985 sale to Avie Bennett, the prefatory material was abandoned and replaced by afterwords.

New Canadian Library

Parent company	McClelland & Stewart
Founded	1958
Founder	Jack McClelland and Malcolm Ross
Country of origin	Canada
Headquarters location	Toronto
Publication types	Books
Official website	www.mcclelland.com/NCL/index.html

It was founded by Malcolm Ross with the intention of providing affordable material for his students; David Staines has been the general editor of the series since 1986. In 2007, the University of Toronto Press published New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978, a work by Janet Beverly Friskney that provides an account of the New Canadian Library during the years of Ross's editorship.

Titles in the New Canadian Library

Numbered series

Originally, all titles in the series were numbered sequentially.

Spine No.	Title	Author	Foreword by
1	Over Prairie Trails	Frederick Philip Grove	Malcolm Ross
2	Such Is My Beloved	Morley Callaghan	Malcolm Ross
3	Literary Lapses	Stephen Leacock	Robertson Davies
4	As for Me and My House	Sinclair Ross	Roy Daniells
5	The Tin Flute	Gabrielle Roy	Hugo McPherson
6	The Clockmaker	Thomas Chandler Haliburton	Robert L. McDougall
7	The Last Barrier and Other Stories	Charles G. D. Roberts	Alec Lucas
8	Barometer Rising	Hugh MacLennan	Hugo McPherson
9	At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories	Thomas Head Raddall	Allan Bevan
10	Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich	Stephen Leacock	Ralph Curry
11	Habitant Poems	William Henry Drummond	Arthur Phelps
12	Thirty Acres	Ringuet	Albert LeGrand
13	Earth and High Heaven	Gwethalyn Graham	Eli Mandel
14	The Man from Glengarry	Ralph Connor	S. Ross Beharriell
15	Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town	Stephen Leacock	Malcolm Ross
16	The Stepsure Letters	Thomas McCulloch	Northrop Frye
17	More Joy in Heaven	Morley Callaghan	Hugo McPherson
18	Wild Geese	Martha Ostenso	Carlyle King
19	The Master of the Mill	Frederick Philip Grove	R. E. Watters
20	The Imperialist	Sara Jeannette Duncan	Claude Bissell
21	Delight	Mazo de la Roche	Desmond Pacey
22	The Second Scroll	A. M. Klein	M. W. Steinberg
23	The Mountain and the Valley	Ernest Buckler	Claude Bissell
24	The Rich Man	Henry Kreisel	John Stedmond
25	Where Nests the Water Hen	Gabrielle Roy	Gordon Roper
26	The Town Below	Roger Lemelin	Glen Shortliffe
27	The History of Emily Montague	Frances Brooke	Carl Klinck
28	My Discovery of England	Stephen Leacock	George Whalley
29	Swamp Angel	Ethel Wilson	Desmond Pacey
30	Each Man's Son	Hugh MacLennan	Alec Lucas
31	Roughing it in the Bush	Susanna Moodie	Carl Klinck
32	White Narcissus	Raymond Knister	Philip Child
33	They Shall Inherit the Earth	Morley Callaghan	F. W. Watt
34	Turvey	Earle Birney	George Woodcock
35	Nonsense Novels	Stephen Leacock	S. Ross Beharriell
36	Grain	Robert J.C. Stead	Thomas Saunders
37	Last of the Curlews	Fred Bodsworth	John Stevens
38	The Nymph and the Lamp	Thomas Head Raddall	John Matthews
39	Judith Hearne	Brian Moore	John Stedmond
40	The Cashier	Gabrielle Roy	W. C. Lougheed
41	Under the Ribs of Death	John Marlyn	Eli Mandel
42	Woodsmen of the West	M. Allerdale Grainger	Rupert Scheider
43	Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy	Stephen Leacock	Robertson Davies
44	Sarah Binks	Paul Hiebert	A. Lloyd Wheeler
45	Son of a Smaller Hero	Mordecai Richler	George Woodcock
46	Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada	Anna Brownell Jameson	Clara Thomas
47	Remember Me	Edward Meade	Norman Shrive
48	Frenzied Fiction	Stephen Leacock	David Dooley
49	Fruits of the Earth	Frederick Philip Grove	M. G. Parks
50	Settlers of the Marsh	Frederick Philip Grove	Thomas Saunders
51	The Backwoods of Canada	Catharine Parr Traill	Clara Thomas
52	Music at the Close	Edward McCourt	Allan Bevan
53	My Remarkable Uncle	Stephen Leacock	John Stevens
54	The Double Hook	Sheila Watson	John Grube
55	Tiger Dunlop's Upper Canada	William Dunlop	Carl Klinck
56	Street of Riches	Gabrielle Roy	Brandon Conron
57	Short Circuits	Stephen Leacock	David Dooley
58	Wacousta	John Richardson	Carl Klinck
59	The Stone Angel	Margaret Laurence	W. H. New
60	Further Foolishness	Stephen Leacock	D. W. Cole
61	Marchbanks' Almanack	Robertson Davies	Gordon Roper
62	The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories	Sinclair Ross	Margaret Laurence
63	The Harbor Master	Theodore Goodridge Roberts	Desmond Pacey
64	The Canadian Settler's Guide	Catharine Parr Traill	Clara Thomas
65	The Golden Dog	William Kirby	Derek Crawley
66	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Mordecai Richler	Allan Bevan
67	Behind the Beyond	Stephen Leacock	Donald Cameron
68	A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder	James De Mille	R. E. Watters
69	Last Leaves	Stephen Leacock	J. M. Robinson
70	The Tomorrow-Tamer	Margaret Laurence	Clara Thomas
71	Odysseus Ever Returning	George Woodcock	W. H. New
72	The Curé of St. Philippe	Francis William Grey	Rupert Scheider
73	The Favourite Game	Leonard Cohen	Rowland J. Smith
74	Winnowed Wisdom	Stephen Leacock	None
75	The Seats of the Mighty	Gilbert Parker	Elizabeth Waterston
76	A Search for America	Frederick Philip Grove	Stanley E. McMullin
77	The Betrayal	Henry Kreisel	Sidney Warhaft
78	Mad Shadows	Marie-Claire Blais	Naïm Kattan
79	The Incomparable Atuk	Mordecai Richler	Malcolm Ross
80	The Luck of Ginger Coffey	Brian Moore	Keath Fraser
81	Essays, Controversies and Poems	John Sutherland	Miriam Waddington
82	Peace Shall Destroy Many	Rudy Wiebe	J. M. Robinson
83	A Voice from the Attic	Robertson Davies	Robert Cockburn
84	Next Episode (Prochain épisode)	Hubert Aquin	Ronald Sutherland
85	Roger Sudden	Thomas Head Raddall	J. R. Leitold
86	Mist on the River	Hubert Evans	W. H. New
87	The Fire-Dwellers	Margaret Laurence	Allan Bevan
88	The Deserter	Douglas LePan	F. W. Watt
89	Antoinette de Mirecourt	Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	Carl Klinck
90	Allegro	Félix Leclerc	Elizabeth Jones
91	The End of the World and Other Stories	Mavis Gallant	Robert Weaver
92	In the Village of Viger and Other Stories	Duncan Campbell Scott	Stan Dragland
93	The Edible Woman	Margaret Atwood	Alan Dawe
94	In Search of Myself	Frederick Philip Grove	D. O. Spettigue
95	Feast of Stephen	Stephen Leacock	None
96	A Bird in the House	Margaret Laurence	Robert Gibbs
97	The Wooden Sword	Edward McCourt	Winnifred Bogaards
98	Pride's Fancy	Thomas Head Raddall	Fred Cogswell
99	Ox Bells and Fireflies	Ernest Buckler	Alan Young
100	Above Ground	Jack Ludwig	Margaret Laurence
101	New Priest in Conception Bay	Robert Lowell	Patrick O'Flaherty
102	The Flying Years	Frederick Niven	Jan de Bruyn
103	Wind Without Rain	Selwyn Dewdney	John Stevens
104	Tête Blanche	Marie-Claire Blais	Philip Stratford
105	Tay John	Howard O'Hagan	Patricia Morley
106	Canadians of Old	Philippe Aubert de Gaspé	Clara Thomas
107	Headwaters of Canadian Literature	Archibald MacMechan	M. G. Parks
108	The Blue Mountains of China	Rudy Wiebe	W. J. Keith
109	The Hidden Mountain	Gabrielle Roy	M. J. Edwards
110	The Heart of the Ancient Wood	Charles G. D. Roberts	Joseph Gold
111	A Jest of God	Margaret Laurence	G. D. Killam
112	Self-Condemned	Wyndham Lewis	Rowland J. Smith
113	Dust Over the City	André Langevin	Ronald Sutherland
114	Our Daily Bread	Frederick Philip Grove	D. O. Spettigue
115	The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century	George Woodcock	George Woodcock
116	The Viking Heart	Laura Salverson	Alison Hopwood
117	Down the Long Table	Earle Birney	Bruce Nesbitt
118	Glengarry School Days	Ralph Connor	S. Ross Beharriell
119	The Plouffe Family	Roger Lemelin	John Moss
120	Windflower	Gabrielle Roy	Lorraine McMullen
121	The Disinherited	Matt Cohen	John Moss
122	The Temptations of Big Bear	Rudy Wiebe	Allan Bevan
123	Pandora	Sylvia Fraser	David Staines
124	House of Hate	Percy Janes	Margaret Laurence
125	A Candle to Light the Sun	Patricia Blondal	Laurence Ricou
126	This Side Jordan	Margaret Laurence	G. D. Killam
127	The Red Feathers	Theodore Goodridge Roberts	Martin Ware
128	I Am Mary Dunne	Brian Moore	Alan Kennedy
129	The Road Past Altamont	Gabrielle Roy	Joyce Marshall
130	Knife on the Table	Jacques Godbout	Gillian Davies
131	The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence	Clara Thomas	None
132	Consider Her Ways	Frederick Philip Grove	D. O. Spettigue
133	His Majesty's Yankees	Thomas Head Raddall	James Gray
134	Jean Rivard	Antoine Gérin-Lajoie	Vida Bruce
135	Bogle Corbet	John Galt	Elizabeth Waterston
136	A Choice of Enemies	Mordecai Richler	Bruce Stovel
137	Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada	E. K. Brown	David Staines
138	The Master's Wife	Andrew Macphail	Ian Ross Robertson
139	The Cruelest Month	Ernest Buckler	Alan Young
140	The Atonement of Ashley Morden	Fred Bodsworth	D. W. Cole
141	Wild Animals I Have Known	Ernest Thompson Seton	Alec Lucas
142	Scann	Robert Harlow	Robert Diotte
143	On Poetry and Poets	A. J. M. Smith	A. J. M. Smith
144	Crackpot	Adele Wiseman	Margaret Laurence
145	Sawbones Memorial	Sinclair Ross	Lorraine McMullen
146	The Diviners	Margaret Laurence	David Staines
147	High Bright Buggy Wheels	Luella Creighton	Rae McCarthy Macdonald
148	Big Lonely (formerly The Lonely Ones)	James Bacque	D. M. R. Bentley
149	Wooden Hunters	Matt Cohen	John Moss
150	God's Sparrows	Philip Child	Dennis Duffy
151	The Outlander	Germaine Guèvremont	Anthony Mollica
152	Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays	Mordecai Richler	Robert Fulford
153	Beautiful Losers	Leonard Cohen	Stan Dragland
154	The Emperor of Ice-Cream	Brian Moore	Patrick Moore
155	Garden in the Wind	Gabrielle Roy	Dennis Cooley
156	The Scorched Wood People	Rudy Wiebe	[[ ]]
157	The Lost Salt Gift of Blood	Alistair MacLeod	Joyce Carol Oates
158	Lord Nelson Tavern	Ray Smith	[[ ]]
159	Everything in the Window	Shirley Faessler	[[ ]]
160	The Camera Always Lies	Hugh Hood	[[ ]]
161	The Selena Tree	Patricia Joudry	[[ ]]
162	Watchers at the Pond	Franklin Russell	[[ ]]
163	Two in the Bush and Other Stories	Audrey Thomas	[[ ]]
164	Bloody Harvest	Grahame Woods	[[ ]]
165	The Neighbour and Other Stories	Naim Kattan	[[ ]]
166	The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange	Marie-Claire Blais	[[ ]]
167	Sandbars	Oonah McFee	[[ ]]
168	Selected Stories	John Metcalf	[[ ]]
169	The Angel of the Tar Sands	Rudy Wiebe	[[ ]]
170	The Innocent Traveller	Ethel Wilson	[[ ]]
171	The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone	Matt Cohen	[[ ]]
172	Bear	Marian Engel	Aritha van Herk
173	Spirit Wrestler	James Houston	[[ ]]
174	The Coming of Winter	David Adams Richards	Rick Hillis
175	Five Legs and Communion	Graeme Gibson	[[ ]]
176	Laugh with Leacock	Stephen Leacock	[[ ]]
177	The Book of Eve	Constance Beresford-Howe	[[ ]]
178	The Channel Shore	Charles Bruce	[[ ]]
179	Amongst Thistles and Thorns	Austin Clarke	[[ ]]
180	Flowers of Darkness	Matt Cohen	[[ ]]
181	The New Ancestors	Dave Godfrey	[[ ]]
182	Judith	Aritha van Herk	[[ ]]
183	St. Lawrence Blues	Marie-Claire Blais	[[ ]]
184	Blood Ties	David Adams Richards	Merna Summers
185	St. Urbain's Horseman	Mordecai Richler	Guy Vanderhaeghe
186	The Lark in the Clear Air	Dennis T. Patrick Sears	[[ ]]
187	Lives of Short Duration	David Adams Richards	Alistair MacLeod
188	A Population of One	Constance Beresford-Howe	[[ ]]
189	Lunatic Villas	Marian Engel	[[ ]]
190	Cocksure	Mordecai Richler	Margaret Drabble
191	The Township of Time	Charles Bruce	[[ ]]
192	Bayo	Chipman Hall	[[ ]]
193	The Sparrow's Fall	Fred Bodsworth	[[ ]]
194	The Tiger in the Tiger Pit	Janette Turner Hospital	[[ ]]
195	The Mangan Inheritance	Brian Moore	Christopher Ricks
196	The Tent Peg	Aritha van Herk	[[ ]]

Unnumbered series

Books published in the collection after the sequential numbering ceased were:

Title	Author	Essay
The Acrobats	Mordecai Richler	Ted Kotcheff
Across the Bridge	Mavis Gallant	Robertson Davies
The Afterlife of George Cartwright	John Steffler	Renée Hulan
The Alley Cat	Yves Beauchemin	Kenneth Radu
Ancient Lineage and Other Stories	Morley Callaghan	William Kennedy
Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Margaret Atwood
Any Time at All and Other Stories	Joyce Marshall	Timothy Findley
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories	Alistair MacLeod	Jane Urquhart
Black Robe	Brian Moore	Marilyn Bowering
Deep Hollow Creek	Sheila Watson	Jane Urquhart
Digging Up the Mountains	Neil Bissoondath	David Staines
Emily Climbs	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Jane Urquhart
Emily of New Moon	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Alice Munro
Emily's Quest	Lucy Maud Montgomery	P. K. Page
The Equations of Love	Ethel Wilson	Alice Munro
Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace	David Adams Richards	Wayne Johnston
Execution	Colin McDougall	Warren Cariou
A Father's Kingdom	Sheila Watson	Glenn Wilmott
A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry	Pico Iyer
For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down	David Adams Richards	Joan Clark
Good Bones	Margaret Atwood	Rosemary Sullivan
Hetty Dorval	Ethel Wilson	Northrop Frye
The Invention of the World	Jack Hodgins	George McWhirter
Joshua Then and Now	Mordecai Richler	Eric Wright
The Kissing Man	George Elliott	Bonnie Burnard
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush	Susanna Moodie	Carol Shields
Light Shining Out of Darkness and Other Stories	Hugh Hood	John Metcalf
Love and Salt Water	Ethel Wilson	Anne Marriott
Man Descending	Guy Vanderhaeghe	Leo McKay Jr.
The Man from the Creeks	Robert Kroetsch
The Moslem Wife and Other Stories	Mavis Gallant	Mordecai Richler
Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories	Ethel Wilson	David Stouck
Murder in the Dark	Margaret Atwood	Steven Heighton
My Financial Career and Other Follies	Stephen Leacock	David Staines
Nights Below Station Street	David Adams Richards	P. K. Page
No Love Lost	Alice Munro	Jane Urquhart
Perpetual Motion	Graeme Gibson	Ramsay Cook
The Prophet's Camel Bell	Margaret Laurence	Clara Thomas
The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne	Jack Hodgins	Iain Higgins
Running in the Family	Michael Ondaatje	Nicole Brossard
The Sacrifice	Adele Wiseman
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel	Marie-Claire Blais	Nicole Brossard
Solomon Gursky Was Here	Mordecai Richler
Spit Delaney's Island	Jack Hodgins	Robert Bringhurst
The Street	Mordecai Richler	William Weintraub
Such a Long Journey	Rohinton Mistry	Alberto Manguel
Surfacing	Margaret Atwood	Marie-Claire Blais
Tales from Firozsha Baag	Rohinton Mistry	W. H. New
Tales from the Uncertain Country and Other Stories	Jacques Ferron
Two Solitudes	Hugh MacLennan	Robert Kroetsch
The Whirlpool	Jane Urquhart	Lynn Coady
Who Has Seen the Wind	W. O. Mitchell	Robert Kroetsch

Poetry collections

• Canadian Poetry: From the Beginnings Through the First World War edited by Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies
• Poets Between the Wars edited by Milton Wilson
• Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960–1970 edited by Eli Mandel
• Poets of the Confederation
• Masks of Fiction
• Masks of Poetry
• Poetry of Mid-Century
• The Poems of Earle Birney
• Nineteenth-Century Narrative Poems
• The Poems of Bliss Carman
• Poems of Al Purdy
• The Damnation of Vancouver
• The Selected Poems of Irving Layton

Canadian writers

• Marshall McLuhan
• E. J. Pratt
• Margaret Laurence
• Frederick Philip Grove
• Leonard Cohen
• Mordecai Richler
• Stephen Leacock
• Hugh MacLennan
• Earle Birney
• Northrop Frye
• Malcolm Lowry
• James Reaney
• George Woodcock
• Farley Mowat
• Ernest Buckler
• Morley Callaghan
• Robertson Davies

External links

• New Canadian Library web site at McClelland and Stewart
• Archive of New Canadian Library web site at McClelland and Stewart