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John Considine is a Canadian academic and lexicographer specializing in the history of English dictionaries and early modern lexicography. He serves as a professor at the University of Alberta and has authored numerous scholarly works examining how historical dictionaries were compiled and used. Con...

World of Wonders is a 1975 novel by Canadian writer Robertson Davies and the concluding volume of the Deptford Trilogy. It centers on Magnus Eisengrim, a renowned stage magician who recounts his childhood abduction, years of exploitation in a traveling show, and eventual transformation into a celebr...

Anne Godlewska is a Canadian academic and professor of geography at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Her scholarly work focuses on the history of geography and cartography, particularly during the 18th and 19th centuries. She is well-regarded for her historical research on French cartography...

Murther & Walking Spirits is a 1991 novel by Canadian writer Robertson Davies. Its narrator, Connor Gilmartin, is murdered and then attends a film festival as a ghost, where he watches films that reveal episodes from his family's history; the novel combines ghost story, family saga, historical mater...