The Innocent Traveller
by Ethel Wilson
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Precocious in childhood, irrepressible in old age, Miss Topaz Edgeworth’s singular accomplishment is to live out an entire century in unflagging – and mostly oblivious – optimism. At once outmoded and unconventional, tyrannical and benign, Topaz leads a largely unexamined life. But the magical quality of her consciousness, revealed through stunning narrative technique, makes her into one of the most delightful characters in Canadian literature. Published in 1949, The Innocent Traveller show more is Ethel Wilson’s most original literary achievement. show lessTags
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This book was beautiful, funny...I just moved away from Vancouver and I found that Wilson's descriptions of her arrival to the city from England were so realistic and so telling of my own experience of love-at-first-sight that I had to put it down for a while for fear of pining for what was...
A beautiful story of a life. The last 20 pages are spectacular, poetic writing.
great character in aunt topaz. a good portrait of its time.
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New Canadian Library (170)
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- Canonical title
- The Innocent Traveller
- Original publication date
- 1949
- Important places
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Epigraph
- "And as if on a stream I fixe mine eye,
That drop, which I looked on, is presently
Pusht with more waters from my sight,
and gone."
JOHN DONNE - Dedication
- TO
WALLACE
MY DEAR HUSBAND - First words
- Far away at the end of the table sat Father, the kind, handsome and provident man.
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- English
- Media
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