The imperialist (original 1904; edition 1990)

by Sara Jeannette Duncan

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Title:	The imperialist
Authors:	Sara Jeannette Duncan
Info:	Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990. 316 p. ; 18 cm.
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The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan (1904)

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i don't know how this book got published once--and then it got reissued! just because it's about canada? and then 200 pages of commentary? i can't believe someone gave it a 3. (

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0771099789, Mass Market Paperback)

Sara Jeannette Duncan’s classic portrait of a turn-of-the-century Ontario town, The Imperialist captures the spirit of an emergent nation through the example of two young dreamers. Impassioned by “the Imperialist idea,” Lorne Murchison rests his bid for office on his vision of a rejuvenated British Empire. His sister Advena betrays a kindred attraction to the high-flown ideals in her love for an unworldly, and unavailable, young minister. Nimbly alternating between politics and romance, Duncan constructs a superbly ironic object-lesson in the Canadian virtue of compromise.

Sympathetic, humorous, and wonderfully detailed, The Imperialist is an astute analysis of the paradoxes of Canadian nationhood, as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1904.

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