A Dark Conspiracy and Other Nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 1)>A first anthology of its kind </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 1)>A Dark Conspiracy and Other nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 1)> anthologizes the best stories written by Canadians.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 1)>Short fiction is the most modern genre in nineteenth-century Canadian literature. It is perfectly synchronous with short-story developments in the United States and Europe. While they contributed to the establishment of a national Canadian literature with their fact-based realism nineteenth-century short-story writers in Canada also explored new literary forms and tried to capture the fleeting nature of modern life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 1)>The present anthology of nineteenth-century Canadian short stories is the most comprehensive ever published. It is also the most inclusive: of the thirty-five stories selected eighteen were written by women.</span></p><p></p>