BY HUGH MACLENNAN
ESSAYS
Cross-Country (1949)
Thirty and Three (1954)
Scotchman’s Return and Other Essays (1960)
The Other Side of Hugh MacLennan: Selected Essays Old and
New [ed. Elspeth Cameron] (1978)
FICTION
Barometer Rising (1941)
Two Solitudes (1945)
The Precipice (1948)
Each Man’s Son (1951)
The Watch that Ends the Night (1959)
Return of the Sphinx (1967)
Voices in Time (1980)
HISTORY
Oxyrhynchus: An Economic and Social Study (1935)
TRAVEL
Seven Rivers of Canada (1961)
The Colour of Canada (1967)
Rivers of Canada (1974)
The Author
HUGH MACLENNAN was born in Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in 1907. He took his B.A. (1928) in Classics from Dalhousie University, then travelled as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford University where he obtained another B.A. and his M.A. (1932); he completed graduate studies in Classics at Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. (1935).
MacLennan returned to Canada in 1935 to accept a teaching appointment in Latin and History at Lower Canada College in Montreal, which remained his home. In 1951 he accepted a position in the Department of English at McGill University, where he taught for three decades.
Barometer Rising was MacLennan’s first novel. His seven novels as well as his many essays and travel books present a chronicle of a Canada that often mediates between the old world of its European cultural heritage and the new world of American vitality and materialism.
MacLennan’s many honours include five Governor General’s Awards and nineteen honorary degrees.
Hugh MacLennan died in Montreal, Quebec, in 1990.
Copyright © 2003 by the Estate of Hugh MacLennan
Afterword copyright © 2003 by Alec Lucas
This book was first published in Canada by the Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd. in 1951. New Canadian Library edition 2003
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication
MacLennan, Hugh, 1907-1990
Each man's son / Hugh MacLennan; afterword by Alec Lucas.
(New Canadian library)
Includes bibliograpical references.
eISBN: 978-1-55199-166-5
I. Title. II. Series.
PS8525.l54E23 2003 C813'.54 C2003-900372-8
PR9199.3.M334E23 2003
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