Shields, Carol
Overview
| Works: | 237 works in 1,566 publications in 23 languages and 36,259 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Domestic fiction Psychological fiction Biography Biographies Short stories Romance fiction History Records and correspondence Educational films |
| Roles: | Author, Narrator, Editor, Author of introduction, Bibliographic antecedent, Interviewee |
| Classifications: | PR9199.3.S514, 813.54 |
Publication Timeline
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Most widely held works about
Carol Shields
- Carol Shields, narrative hunger, and the possibilities of fiction by Dee Goertz( Book )
- Carol Shields and the extra-ordinary by Marta Dvorak( Book )
- Random illuminations : conversations with Carol Shields by Eleanor Wachtel( Book )
- A memoir of friendship : the letters between Carol Shields and Blanche Howard by Carol Shields( Book )
- Carol Shields and the writer-critic by Brenda Beckman-Long( Book )
- Carol Shields : the arts of a writing life( Book )
- Coming to Canada : poems by Carol Shields( Book )
- The worlds of Carol Shields( Book )
- Liminal spaces : the double art of Carol Shields by Alex Ramon( Book )
- Startle and illuminate : Carol Shields on writing by Carol Shields( Book )
- Carol Shields' magic wand : turning the ordinary into the extraordinary by Adriana Trozzi( Book )
- Carol Shields : evocation and echo by Carol Shields( Book )
- A Wood by Bernard Aylward( Visual )
- The Harp( Visual )
- Various miracles( Visual )
- Dolls, dolls, dolls, dolls( Visual )
- Windows : Design, Construction, & Installation by Robert Delaunay( Visual )
- Hazel( Visual )
- Contemporary literary criticism( Book )
- Monograph on Carol Shields( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Carol Shields
The stone diaries by
Carol Shields(
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198 editions published between 1993 and 2016 in 19 languages and held by 5,315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a woman, written to resemble a biography, complete with family photos. The chapter-headings tell the story: "Birth, 1905;" "Childhood, 1916;""Marriage, 1927;" "Love, 1936;" "Motherhood, 1947;""Illness and Decline, 1985;" and, finally, "Death."
198 editions published between 1993 and 2016 in 19 languages and held by 5,315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a woman, written to resemble a biography, complete with family photos. The chapter-headings tell the story: "Birth, 1905;" "Childhood, 1916;""Marriage, 1927;" "Love, 1936;" "Motherhood, 1947;""Illness and Decline, 1985;" and, finally, "Death."
Unless by
Carol Shields(
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99 editions published between 2002 and 2017 in 15 languages and held by 3,235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Reta Winters life as an author, mother and wife starts to crumble when her eldest daughter takes to sitting silently on a street corner wearing a sign that says "Goodness."
99 editions published between 2002 and 2017 in 15 languages and held by 3,235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Reta Winters life as an author, mother and wife starts to crumble when her eldest daughter takes to sitting silently on a street corner wearing a sign that says "Goodness."
Larry's party by
Carol Shields(
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110 editions published between 1997 and 2006 in 15 languages and held by 2,529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A comedy on the rise of a nobody. It happens to Larry Weller, a Winnipeg floral designer who goes for his honeymoon to England. The couple visit Hampton Court with its shrubs and Weller discovers his vocation, becoming a famous maze builder
110 editions published between 1997 and 2006 in 15 languages and held by 2,529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A comedy on the rise of a nobody. It happens to Larry Weller, a Winnipeg floral designer who goes for his honeymoon to England. The couple visit Hampton Court with its shrubs and Weller discovers his vocation, becoming a famous maze builder
Jane Austen by
Carol Shields(
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50 editions published between 2001 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 2,318 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the Stone Diaries focuses on the life and fiction of Jane Austen in a critical biography of the reclusive author of Pride and Prejudice and other great novels. Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. Jane Austen reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. With her forceful insight and gentle wit, she was the ultimate chronicler of the mores and manners of her time as well as a groundbreaking author who would influence many of our greatest contemporary novelists. Who was this woman that created both characters that leap off the page and entertaining plots, yet managed to quietly challenge a strict social order? What gave her the motivation to continue writing when women were excluded from the publishing world? In this compelling and passionate biography, Carol Shields explores the life of this amazing woman, from her early family life in Stevenson, to her later years at Bath, her broken engagement, and her tumultuous relationship with her sister Cassandra
50 editions published between 2001 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 2,318 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the Stone Diaries focuses on the life and fiction of Jane Austen in a critical biography of the reclusive author of Pride and Prejudice and other great novels. Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. Jane Austen reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. With her forceful insight and gentle wit, she was the ultimate chronicler of the mores and manners of her time as well as a groundbreaking author who would influence many of our greatest contemporary novelists. Who was this woman that created both characters that leap off the page and entertaining plots, yet managed to quietly challenge a strict social order? What gave her the motivation to continue writing when women were excluded from the publishing world? In this compelling and passionate biography, Carol Shields explores the life of this amazing woman, from her early family life in Stevenson, to her later years at Bath, her broken engagement, and her tumultuous relationship with her sister Cassandra
Dressing up for the carnival by
Carol Shields(
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47 editions published between 2000 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 1,685 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Dressing Up for the Carnival, Carol Shields distills her characteristic wisdom, elegance, and insouciant humor in twenty-two luminous stories. A wealth of surprises and contrasts, this collection ranges from the lyricism of "Weather," in which a couple's life is thrown into chaos when the National Association of Meteorologists goes on strike, to the swampy sexuality of "Eros," in which a room in a Parisian hotel on the verge of ruin is the catalyst for passion, to the brave confidence of "A Scarf"--New for this collection-which chronicles the realities of a fledging author's book tour. Playful, graceful, acutely observed, and generous of spirit, these stories will delight her devoted fans and win her new converts as well. ... Publisher description
47 editions published between 2000 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 1,685 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Dressing Up for the Carnival, Carol Shields distills her characteristic wisdom, elegance, and insouciant humor in twenty-two luminous stories. A wealth of surprises and contrasts, this collection ranges from the lyricism of "Weather," in which a couple's life is thrown into chaos when the National Association of Meteorologists goes on strike, to the swampy sexuality of "Eros," in which a room in a Parisian hotel on the verge of ruin is the catalyst for passion, to the brave confidence of "A Scarf"--New for this collection-which chronicles the realities of a fledging author's book tour. Playful, graceful, acutely observed, and generous of spirit, these stories will delight her devoted fans and win her new converts as well. ... Publisher description
The republic of love by
Carol Shields(
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96 editions published between 1992 and 2016 in 13 languages and held by 1,514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fay and Tom, each concerned with their own respective obsessions, finally fall in love
96 editions published between 1992 and 2016 in 13 languages and held by 1,514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fay and Tom, each concerned with their own respective obsessions, finally fall in love
The box garden by
Carol Shields(
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44 editions published between 1977 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,446 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A poet's struggle to make something of herself after her creative juices run dry. Although she has a son and a man who loves her, Charleen Forrest is still obsessed by the thought that she is a failure. The novel follows Charleen as she tries to sort herself out. By the author of The Stone Diaries for which she won the Pulitzer Prize
44 editions published between 1977 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,446 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A poet's struggle to make something of herself after her creative juices run dry. Although she has a son and a man who loves her, Charleen Forrest is still obsessed by the thought that she is a failure. The novel follows Charleen as she tries to sort herself out. By the author of The Stone Diaries for which she won the Pulitzer Prize
Collected stories by
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35 editions published between 2003 and 2013 in English and held by 1,381 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of short works features definitive pieces written throughout the course of the author's career, including the previously unpublished "Segue," a portrayal of a sonnet writer who faces an unknown darkness
35 editions published between 2003 and 2013 in English and held by 1,381 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of short works features definitive pieces written throughout the course of the author's career, including the previously unpublished "Segue," a portrayal of a sonnet writer who faces an unknown darkness
Small ceremonies by
Carol Shields(
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44 editions published between 1976 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,334 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On the surface Judith Gill, the protagonist, is a nobody, a middle-class housewife with two children living in a small town. But her job as a biographer has taught her it is the little things in life that count, and from that point of view her story is alive with action. By the author of The Stone Diaries, for which she won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
44 editions published between 1976 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,334 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On the surface Judith Gill, the protagonist, is a nobody, a middle-class housewife with two children living in a small town. But her job as a biographer has taught her it is the little things in life that count, and from that point of view her story is alive with action. By the author of The Stone Diaries, for which she won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Swann by
Carol Shields(
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63 editions published between 1987 and 2013 in 8 languages and held by 1,145 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The lives of four amazingly different individuals become intertwined with that of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet of delicate verse whose genuine talent is only discovered after she is brutally murdered
63 editions published between 1987 and 2013 in 8 languages and held by 1,145 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The lives of four amazingly different individuals become intertwined with that of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet of delicate verse whose genuine talent is only discovered after she is brutally murdered
Various miracles by
Carol Shields(
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51 editions published between 1985 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 895 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of short stories looking at some of the miracles that transform our ordinary everyday existence.__
51 editions published between 1985 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 895 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of short stories looking at some of the miracles that transform our ordinary everyday existence.__
Happenstance, the husband's story ; Happenstance, the wife's story by
Carol Shields(
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48 editions published between 1982 and 2016 in English and held by 815 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Two stories from a marriage in crisis: thewife's story and the husband's story. The setting issuburbia, the time frame a week spent apart. She goes toa quilting convention where she has an affair, he stayshome to mind the kids and discuss manhood with a friendwho has been abandoned by his wife
48 editions published between 1982 and 2016 in English and held by 815 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Two stories from a marriage in crisis: thewife's story and the husband's story. The setting issuburbia, the time frame a week spent apart. She goes toa quilting convention where she has an affair, he stayshome to mind the kids and discuss manhood with a friendwho has been abandoned by his wife
A celibate season by
Carol Shields(
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27 editions published between 1991 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 670 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A husband and wife exchange vows of celibacy when she has to move to the other side of the country for a job. Over a period of a year they exchange letters, telling each other how they are doing. The setting is Canada
27 editions published between 1991 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 670 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A husband and wife exchange vows of celibacy when she has to move to the other side of the country for a job. Over a period of a year they exchange letters, telling each other how they are doing. The setting is Canada
The orange fish by
Carol Shields(
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30 editions published between 1989 and 2016 in English and French and held by 549 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
These twelve short stories portray middle-aged, middle-class women who feel alone and alienated. In the title story, the orange fish is a lithograph which changes the lives of its owners, those who possess the print offer testimony to what it means to them
30 editions published between 1989 and 2016 in English and French and held by 549 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
These twelve short stories portray middle-aged, middle-class women who feel alone and alienated. In the title story, the orange fish is a lithograph which changes the lives of its owners, those who possess the print offer testimony to what it means to them
Unless by
Carol Shields(
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41 editions published between 2002 and 2012 in English and held by 546 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
For all of her life, 44 year old Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light 'summertime' fiction. But this placid existence is cracked wide open when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns into an unflinching and surprisingly funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope
41 editions published between 2002 and 2012 in English and held by 546 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
For all of her life, 44 year old Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light 'summertime' fiction. But this placid existence is cracked wide open when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns into an unflinching and surprisingly funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope
Larry's party by
Carol Shields(
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29 editions published between 1997 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 354 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A landscape architects life is seen in comparison to the garden mazes he creates and the focal points of turns in his existence
29 editions published between 1997 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 354 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A landscape architects life is seen in comparison to the garden mazes he creates and the focal points of turns in his existence
The stone diaries by
Carol Shields(
Recording
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20 editions published between 1993 and 2009 in English and held by 305 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Shields waves together a story of a 20th century pilgrim in search of herself
20 editions published between 1993 and 2009 in English and held by 305 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Shields waves together a story of a 20th century pilgrim in search of herself
Mary Swann by
Carol Shields(
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28 editions published between 1990 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mary Swann submitted a paper bag of poems to newspaper editor Frederic Cruzzi just hours before her husband hacked her to death. Who is Mary Swann and how could she have produced these works of genius? Four local characters, including the local librarian and Cruzzi, investigate
28 editions published between 1990 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mary Swann submitted a paper bag of poems to newspaper editor Frederic Cruzzi just hours before her husband hacked her to death. Who is Mary Swann and how could she have produced these works of genius? Four local characters, including the local librarian and Cruzzi, investigate
Happenstance : a novel by
Carol Shields(
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18 editions published between 1980 and 2016 in English and Chinese and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A week spent apart for a long-time married couple brings new and frightening experiences for each. Bewildered in a new city, Brenda struggles to cope. Meanwhile, at home, Jack's world falls apart; but while dealing with the crises around him, he learns something about himself
18 editions published between 1980 and 2016 in English and Chinese and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A week spent apart for a long-time married couple brings new and frightening experiences for each. Bewildered in a new city, Brenda struggles to cope. Meanwhile, at home, Jack's world falls apart; but while dealing with the crises around him, he learns something about himself
Coming to Canada : poems by
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12 editions published between 1992 and 2014 in English and held by 164 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 editions published between 1992 and 2014 in English and held by 164 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Author
- Goertz, Dee Editor
- Eden, Edward 1964- Editor
- Jones, Manina
- Dvorak, Marta
- Howard, Blanche Author
- Ramon, Alex Author
- Beckman-Long, Brenda Author
- Allen, Joan 1956- Actor Narrator
- Anderson, Marjorie May 1944- Editor
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Austen, Jane, Canada Canadian fiction Canadian poetry College teachers' spouses Diary fiction Domestic fiction Families Flower arrangers Harp Harp music Husbands Illinois--Chicago Landscape architects Manners and customs Marriage Married people Maze puzzles Men Men--Social conditions Mentally ill Middle-aged women Mothers and daughters Narration (Rhetoric) Nineteen eighties Nineteen nineties Nineteen seventies Novelists, English Ontario Poetry--Study and teaching Poets--Study and teaching Psychological fiction Romance fiction Runaway teenagers Scholars Self-disclosure Shields, Carol Short stories, Canadian Short stories, English Short stories, English--Women authors Spouses Teenage girls United States Women Women and literature Women authors Women biographers Women--Fiction Women novelists, English Women poets
Alternative Names
Carol Shields Canadees dichteres (1935-2003)
Carol Shields canadisk poet
Carol Shields escritora canadiense
Carol Shields kanadensisk poet
Carol Shields kanadische Schriftstellerin
Carol Shields kanadisk poet
Carol Shields romancière canadienne
Carol Shields scrittrice canadese
Carola Shields
Shields, Carol
Shields, Carol Ann Warner 1935-2003
Šīldsa, Kerola 1935-2003
Šīldz, Kārūl 1935-2003
Warner , Carol Ann
Warner, Carol Ann 1935-2003
Шилдс, Кэрол
קרול שילדס
שילדס, קרול
שילדס, קרול 1935-2003
کارول شیلدز شاعر کانادایی
실즈, 캐럴 1935-2003
キャロル・シールズ
シールズ, キャロル
Languages
English
(888)
French (41)
German (31)
Dutch (27)
Finnish (23)
Swedish (18)
Danish (18)
Italian (17)
Spanish (15)
Catalan (11)
Chinese (9)
Polish (8)
Hebrew (5)
Norwegian (5)
Korean (4)
Japanese (3)
Czech (3)
Hungarian (3)
Bulgarian (3)
Portuguese (1)
Vietnamese (1)
Icelandic (1)
Greek, Modern (1)
French (41)
German (31)
Dutch (27)
Finnish (23)
Swedish (18)
Danish (18)
Italian (17)
Spanish (15)
Catalan (11)
Chinese (9)
Polish (8)
Hebrew (5)
Norwegian (5)
Korean (4)
Japanese (3)
Czech (3)
Hungarian (3)
Bulgarian (3)
Portuguese (1)
Vietnamese (1)
Icelandic (1)
Greek, Modern (1)
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