Fear's Folly/(Les demi-civilises)

By Jean-Charles Harvey
Categories: Canadian Literature
Series: Carleton Library Series
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773573352, 188 pages, January 1982

Description

Superbly rendered by the late John Glassco, Harvey's controversial work is presented in its true cultural and social setting. First published in 1934, this novel satirizing the bourgeois élite and the suffocating rule of the Catholic clergy created a furor in Quebec.