As with the other three, Pride's Fancy was published in McClelland & Stewart's New Canadian Library series.
Harlequin 298 - May 1954
Harlequin 298 back
NCL 98 - 1974
NCL 98 back
Showing posts with label Thomas H. Raddall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas H. Raddall. Show all posts
Friday, 17 February 2012
Harlequin Authors Part XVIII - Thomas H. Raddall (4)
Canadian author Thomas H. Raddall's fourth and final Harlequin edition is Pride's Fancy, his third novel, published in 1946 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart). This is the only unabridged Harlequin edition and the shortest at 288 pages.
As with the other three, Pride's Fancy was published in McClelland & Stewart's New Canadian Library series.
As with the other three, Pride's Fancy was published in McClelland & Stewart's New Canadian Library series.
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Harlequin Authors Part XVII - Thomas H. Raddall (3)
Canadian author Thomas H. Raddall's third Harlequin edition is His Majesty's Yankees, his first novel, published in 1942 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart). Even at 320 pages, like the second, the third is silently abridged.
The Popular edition below is some 40% longer than the Harlequin. It isn't dated but the young miss looks 1960s rather than 1760s and the flag on the cover puts it after 1965. The back cover blurb ("FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK") is wrong but it may be the first unabridged paperback edition.
The Popular edition below is some 40% longer than the Harlequin. It isn't dated but the young miss looks 1960s rather than 1760s and the flag on the cover puts it after 1965. The back cover blurb ("FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK") is wrong but it may be the first unabridged paperback edition.
Harlequin 196 - November 1952
Harlequin 196 back
Popular 95-202 - nd
Popular 95-202 back
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Harlequin Authors Part XVI - Thomas Raddall (2)
The second of four Harlequin editions of Thomas H. Raddall novels is The Nymph and the Lamp, his fourth, published by McClelland & Stewart in 1950. This is the first contemporary (1920s) novel after three eighteenth century historicals.
Unlike the first Raddall title from Harlequin, Roger Sudden, there is no notice that the work is abridged. But a comparison with the New Canadian Library edition published in 1963 shows the Harlequin has less pages, less lines per page and less characters per line. The full effect is about 15% less novel.
I haven't read the book but my guess is that the heroine depicted on the Harlequin edition isn't what Raddall had in mind. The book is available from the Halifax publisher Nimbus.
Unlike the first Raddall title from Harlequin, Roger Sudden, there is no notice that the work is abridged. But a comparison with the New Canadian Library edition published in 1963 shows the Harlequin has less pages, less lines per page and less characters per line. The full effect is about 15% less novel.
I haven't read the book but my guess is that the heroine depicted on the Harlequin edition isn't what Raddall had in mind. The book is available from the Halifax publisher Nimbus.
Harlequin 189 - September 1952
Harlequin 189 back
New Canadian Library N38 - 1963 ("sixth reprint")
New Canadian Library N38 back
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Harlequin Authors Part XV - Thomas H. Raddall (1)
Three time Governor General's Award winner Thomas H. Raddall (1903-1994) was a popular Canadian author from the 1940s to the 1960s. Today I imagine he is little remembered outside of Nova Scotia where he spent most of his life. Here there is a provincial park, a county archive, and an award for fiction named after him.
Harlequin Books published four of his novels with Raddall's second novel, Roger Sudden, first. Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1944, it is still in print. It was also published in the US and UK as well a five part serial in the pulp Adventure.
The Harlequin edition is 320 pages long but we are told on the copyright page that it is "abridged for your reading pleasure." I wonder what Raddall thought of that. The abridgement is not subtle with whole paragraphs dropped at random. For example five of the first ten paragraphs are excised.
Harlequin Books published four of his novels with Raddall's second novel, Roger Sudden, first. Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1944, it is still in print. It was also published in the US and UK as well a five part serial in the pulp Adventure.
The Harlequin edition is 320 pages long but we are told on the copyright page that it is "abridged for your reading pleasure." I wonder what Raddall thought of that. The abridgement is not subtle with whole paragraphs dropped at random. For example five of the first ten paragraphs are excised.
Harlequin 141 - December 1951 (reprinted July 1952)
Harlequin 141 back
Nimbus - 1996
Nimbus back
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