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The Emily Carr Omnibus: Klee Wyck, Book of Small, House of All Sorts, Growing Pains, Heart of a Peacock, Pause, Hundreds & Thousands
Primarily recognized as a painter known for her post-impressionist style works depicting aboriginal themes and Canadian landscapes, Emily Carr (1871-1945) was also a writer who vividly described her life in Victoria and is credited as being one of the earliest chroniclers of life in British Columbia.
The gentle, irascible, passionate, poetic voice of Emily Carr resonates through her writings still today, showing how her attitudes and observations were ahead of her time. The Emily Carr Omnibus includes all her major published works from the much-loved early years (Klee Wyck and The Book of Small), to the acerbic (The House of All Sorts), the lesser known (Pause and The Heart of the Peacock), the more personal (Growing Pains), and selections from her autobiography and collected journals (Hundreds & Thousands); all of which