Authors: Margaret Laurence
This Side Jordan (26 page)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Prophet’s Camel Bell (1963)
ESSAYS
Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists 1952–1966 (1968)
Heart of a Stranger (1976)
FICTION
This Side Jordan (1960)
The Tomorrow-Tamer (1963)
The Stone Angel (1964)
A Jest of God (1966)
The Fire-Dwellers (1969)
A Bird in the House (1970)
The Diviners (1974)
FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Jason’s Quest (1970)
Six Darn Cows (1979)
The Olden Days Coat (1979)
The Christmas Birthday Story (1980)
TRANSLATIONS
A Tree for Poverty: Somali Poetry and Prose (1954)
Copyright © 1960 by Margaret Laurence
Afterword copyright © 1989 by George Woodcock
This New Canadian Library edition 2009
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Laurence, Margaret, 1926-1987
This side Jordan / Margaret Laurence; with an afterword by George Woodcock.
(New Canadian library)
Originally publ. 1960.
eISBN: 978-1-55199-299-0
I. Title. II. Series: New Canadian library
PS8523.A86T4 2009 C813′.54 C2009-901591-9
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