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Sara Jeannette Duncan’s classic portrait of a turn-of-the-century Ontario town, *The Imperialist* captures the spirit of an emergent nation through the example of two young dreamers. Impassioned by “the Imperialist idea,” Lorne Murchison rests his bid for office on his vision of a rejuvenated British Empire. His sister Advena betrays a kindred attraction to the high-flown ideals in her love for an unworldly, and unavailable, young minister. Nimbly alternating between politics and romance, Duncan constructs a superbly ironic object-lesson in the Canadian virtue of compromise.Sympathetic, humorous, and wonderfully detailed, *The Imperialist* is an astute analysis of the paradoxes of Canadian nationhood, as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1904.*From the Paperback edition.*words : 106738

Author

Duncan, Sara Jeannette; Hospital, Janette Turner

Publisher

New Canadian Library

Published

1904

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771096297

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

2.56 / 5 (92 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14