The Book of Small is a collection of thirty-six short stories about a childhood in a town that still had vestiges of its pioneer past. Emily Carr tells stories about her family, neighbours, friends and strangers - who run the gamut from genteel people in high society to disreputable frequenters of saloons - as well as an array of beloved pets. All are observed through the sharp eyes and ears of a young and ever-curious girl. Carr's writing is a disarming combination of charm and devastating frankness.

The Book of Small

Arts & Photography

CARR, Emily

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Emily Garr's accomplishments as a painter and writer assure her prominence in the Canadian cultural scene. Her works inspire others in their own creative efforts. The gentle, irascible, passionate, poetic voice of Emily Carr resonates through her writings today, even more strongly than before. Her attitudes and observations were ahead of her time on native issues, because of the important role native Northwest Coast culture played in her art and life, and on feminism, as a woman who surmounted gender prejudice to achieve her goals with such distinction. Her deep commitment to nature in all its manifestations speaks to the environmental dilemmas that face us now. Thc Emily Carr Omnibus includes all her major published works. Here are her much-loved early stories, ranging for the gentle recollections of Klee Wyck and The Book of Small, to the acerbic The House of All Sorts, as well as the lesser-known Pause and The Heart of a Peacock. Here also are more personal works: Growing Pains, her autobiography, and her collected journals, Hundreds and Thousands.

The Emily Carr Omnibus

SHADBOLT, DORIS

Univ of Washington Pr

Beloved Land: The World of Emily Carr celebrates the art and writing of a great artist who dedicated her life to portraying the powerful majesty of the coastal landscape, the lush rain forest and the monumental totem poles created by the native people of British Columbia. The 40 full-colour paintings chosen for this book from the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery are among Emily Carr's most popular, and they are accompanied by short quotations from her writing. The introduction by Robin Laurence presents revealing insights into the life of this unconventional and gifted woman.

Beloved Land: The World of Emily Carr

Emily Carr was a supremely gifted writer and artist. This volume, originally published in 1993 as The Emily Carr Omnibus, makes available all seven of her books: Klee Wyck, The Book of Small, The House of All Sorts, Growing Pains, The Heart of a Peacock, Pause, and Hundreds and Thousands.
"Emily Carr (1871-1945), Canadian painter and writer, was the most beloved and mythologized American type: a frontier character. Pioneer artists, harbinger of the advanced American style not yet called Abstract Expressionism in her time, she was also a mighty grouch, given to sulks and breakdowns and, by contrast to fits of coy girlishness and pantheistic enthusiasm. She lives on, the complete if problematical feminist model, in the delectable self-portraits that pepper the pages of this collection." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Complete Writings of Emily Carr

Individual Artists

Moray (art history, U. of Guelph, Ontario) has written a fascinating and well-researched history on Canadian artist Emily Carr's expeditions to witness and document native art in British Columbia. More than a history, Moray makes a forceful argument for Carr's conscious attempt to represent Native art in a manner consistent with Native life and belief, in part as a critique of non-Native national and religious policies. The text is well illustrated with many period photos, the paintings of other artists, and Carr's own drawings and watercolors. In addition, there are 83 full-page color plates of Carr's works, making this a splendid and full resource. The volume, which is oversize (8.75x12.25"), is co-published by U. of Washington Press and the U. of British Columbia Press (their ISBN: 978-0-7748-1282-5). Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN VREELAND Emily Carr’s painting and writing were inspired by her lifelong fascination with Native culture and the landscape of British Columbia that she so cherished.   Klee Wyck, first published in 1941, is a collection of twenty-one sketches that document her experiences with British Columbia’s indigenous people. It won the Governor General’s Award that same year. The title Klee Wyck originated from the nickname given to Carr by one of the Native communities she befriended at Ucluelet. It means "laughing one."

Penguin Black Classics: Klee Wyck

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Canada

Pause : A Sketch Book

Clarke, Irwin

Paperback, as shown, top outer cover-corner price clipped, but APPEARS NOT READ, tight, clean & BRIGHT. Guaranteed.

Klee Wyck

Clarke, Irwin & Co., Ltd.

Emily Carr was primarily a painter, but she first gained recognition as an author for her seven books about her journeys to remote Native communities and stories about life as an artist, as a small child in Victoria at the turn of the last centuryand as a reluctant landlady.Before winning recognition for her painting and writing, Carr built a small apartment building with four suites (she lived in one of them) that she hoped would earn her a living. But things turned out worse than expected, and in her forties, the gifted artist found herself shoveling coal and cleaning up after people for 23 years.The House of All Sorts is a collection of 41 stories of those hard-working days and the parade of tenants- young couples, widows, sad bachelors and rent evaders all the tears and travails of being a landlady confronted with the startling foibles of humanity. Carr is at her most acerbic and rueful, but filled with energy and inextinguishable hope.Carr’s writing is vital and direct, aware and poignant, and as well regarded today as when The House of All Sorts was first published in 1944 to critical and popular acclaim. The book has been in print ever since.

The House of All Sorts

Delightful story of a little girl growing up in Canada during late 1800s. Cover design by Mort Walsh.

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

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The Book of Small

The Emily Carr Omnibus

Beloved Land: The World of Emily Carr

The Complete Writings of Emily Carr

Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr

Penguin Black Classics: Klee Wyck

Pause : A Sketch Book

Klee Wyck

The House of All Sorts

The Book of Small