The golden thread: A reader's journey through the great books (Ex libris)

Literature & Fiction

Meyer, Bruce

History & Criticism

HarperFlamingo Canada

What makes the heroes of literatureGilgamesh, Jesus, Beowulf, Hamlet, even Supermanso intriguing and enduring? Do they grasp and fire our imaginations because they’re larger than life or because they’re more human than we might imagine?    Bestselling author and broadcaster Bruce Meyer unmasks the greatest heroes of literature, showing what makes them heroic as well as what makes them human. Ultimately, he demonstrates, heroes reflect the best of humanity. What Meyer’s bestselling book The Golden Thread did for the touchstone works of Western literature, Heroes does for our rich canon of flawed yet powerful characters. Whether tragic and epic, divine or infernal, Meyer ushers us into the company of extraordinary figures and guides us through some of the greatest stories ever told.

Heroes

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

HarperCollins, Publishers

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“Meyer is the best sort of critical reader: one who loves literature and also enjoys discussing it in an enlightened and accessible manner.” Quill &amp; Quire
Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and all the other great authors are still with us in ways we might not realize. They are the creators of the stories that mould our lives, our deaths, our dreams and our politics. In The Golden Thread, Bruce Meyer takes his readers on a voyage of discovery through some of the most important works in Western literature, from the Bible and the Odyssey toA Room of One’s Own and Ulysses. Offering a fresh and accessible approach to understanding the narratives that underlie our culture, he shows how the great works of the past continue to be manifest in today’s media. 
Now reissued in a beautiful Harper Perennial edition with a P.S. section, The Golden Thread is a guide that will enable both the lover of literature and the reader who has always felt intimidated by the classics to navigate through the great works with confidenceand wonder.

The Golden Thread

Harper-perennial

This anthology places English-language short stories in an international and multifaceted context that supercedes the traditional boundaries of national literatures and illustrates the richness of the language. The Stories piques interest in contemporary short fiction by offering a leading-edge selection for courses that have embraced this “new canon.”

The Stories: Contemporary Short Fiction Written in English

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Pearson Education Canada

A Novel Idea

Enright, Michael

Cbc Radio Canada

The Presence

Black Moss Pr

Meyer believes that each of us has a Timbuktu in our hearts and lives - the story of the quest for the elusive city of gold. The Obsession Book of Timbuktu is a book of love, obsession and desire. Meyer tells the fool's history not only of a fabled African city but of his own hometown of Barrie, Ontario and the restless ambition of artists tranforming it from a vision to a reality. Part history, part tribute to the dying art of the lyric, The Obession Book of Timbuktu is a hymn and a poetic novel about the quest to make the impossible accessible.

The Obsession Book of Timbuktu

Poetry

In Their Words explores the connections that bring Canada's writers together as a dynamic literary community. Included are Milton Acorn, Leonard Cohen, Timothy Findley, Irving Layton, Dorothy Livesay, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Eli Mandel, Brian Moore, Al Purdy, Elizabeth Smart, and Sheila Watson.

In Their Words: Interviews With Fourteen Canadian Writers

House of Anansi Pr

In Portraits of Canadian Writers, Bruce Meyer shares the portraits of some of Canada's most beloved writers alongside anecdotes that reveal their personalities.

Portraits of Canadian Writers

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Porcupine's Quill

Toast Soldiers is a evocative short story collection from award-winning poet and author, Bruce Meyer. Stunningly dark and full of beautiful incongruities and absurdities, the stories center on characters grappling with a confounding universe. A boxer returns to his hometown after a decade away and, instead of finding solace from his failures in the ring, arrives in a ghost town that has taken as many, if not more, punches than he has ever had to endure himself. A prospector in the far north crashes his Curtis Jenny biplane in a snowstorm and during the night he witnesses his life unfold in the cinematic glow of the Northern Lights. A child with an imaginary friend murders his abusive father but learns that kindness is just a shadow away. A veteran of World War One attempts to prove, once and for all, that a horrific event he was part of was real despite historians who argue to the contrary. And there are many more. Toast Soldiers tells the stories of individuals who fight against the invincible fates they confront and attempt to assert themselves even though they know they are facing defeat.

Toast Soldiers

Short Stories & Anthologies

Crowsnest Books

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