MacEwen, Gwendolyn 1941-1987

Noman by Gwendolyn MacEwen ( Book )
7 editions published between 1972 and 1985 in English and held by 184 libraries worldwide
Stories.

King of Egypt, king of dreams; a novel by Gwendolyn MacEwen ( Book )
10 editions published between 1970 and 2004 in English and held by 167 libraries worldwide
The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Gwendolyn MacEwen's second novel, more than thirty years after its original appearance in 1971. The novel bears important resemblances to MacEwen's earlier Julian the Magician. Writing to poet Al Purdy, MacEwen confessed she wanted her second novel to be ''bulky, readable, and not overly mysterious.'' Unlike in Julian, however, here MacEwen sets out to write a deeply serious novel that also functions as entertaining historical fiction. The novel's hero is Akhenaton, Pharaoh of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, who was the first ruler to introduce the idea of.

The shadow-maker by Gwendolyn MacEwen ( Book )
11 editions published between 1969 and 1972 in English and French and held by 154 libraries worldwide
Poems.

Magic animals : selected poems old and new by Gwendolyn MacEwen ( Book )
7 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 153 libraries worldwide

The fire-eaters by Gwendolyn MacEwen ( Book )
6 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 150 libraries worldwide

Julian the magician by Gwendolyn MacEwen ( Book )
10 editions published between 1935 and 2004 in English and held by 148 libraries worldwide
The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Gwendolyn MacEwen's first novel, more than forty years after its original appearance in 1963. MacEwen described what she set out to achieve as a ''sort of powerful poetic mad half-abandoned prose somewhere between [Kenneth] Patchen and Virginia Woolf.'' Set in a medieval past that has distinctly modern overtones, the novel is about Julian, a young man who believes he is Christ. Wandering the countryside in a horse-drawn wagon, Julian learns ''to suspend logic like a whale on a thread.'' He becomes a master of alchemy, performing ''miracles'' like curin.

The T.E. Lawrence poems by Gwendolyn MacEwen ( Book )
9 editions published between 1982 and 1995 in English and held by 142 libraries worldwide

The armies of the moon by Gwendolyn MacEwen ( Book )
6 editions published in 1972 in English and held by 120 libraries worldwide

A breakfast for barbarians by Gwendolyn MacEwen ( Book )
6 editions published between 1966 and 1967 in English and held by 108 libraries worldwide

Afterworlds by Gwendolyn MacEwen ( Book )
5 editions published between 1987 and 1988 in English and held by 105 libraries worldwide