A Jest of God (27 page)

BY MARGARET LAURENCE

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Prophet’s Camel Bell (1963)
Dance on the Earth (1989)

ESSAYS
Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists
and Novelists 1952–1966 (1968)
Heart of a Stranger (1976)

FICTION
This Side Jordan (1960)
The Tomorrow-Tamer (1963)
The Stone Angel (1964)
A Jest of God (1966)
The Fire-Dwellers (1969)
A Bird in the House (1970)
The Diviners (1974)

FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Jason’s Quest (1970)
Six Darn Cows (1979)
The Olden Days Coat (1979)
The Christmas Birthday Story (1980)

LETTERS
Margaret Laurence – Al Purdy: A Friendship in Letters [ed. John Lennox] (1993)
Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman [ed. John Lennox and Ruth Panofsky] (1997)

TRANSLATIONS
A Tree for Poverty: Somali Poetry and Prose (1954)

This book was first published by McClelland & Stewart in 1966.

Copyright © 1966, 1974 by Margaret Laurence
Afterword copyright © 1988 by O.W. Toad Ltd.

New Canadian Library edition 1988
This New Canadian Library edition 2009

All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher – or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency – is an infringement of the copyright law.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Laurence, Margaret, 1926-1987
     A jest of God / Margaret Laurence ; with an afterword by Margaret Atwood.

(New Canadian library)
eISBN: 978-1-55199-376-8

     I. Title. II. Series.

PS8523.A86J4 2009     C813′.54     C2008-906072-5

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
: The lines from “Losers” from Smoke and Steel by Carl Sandburg, copyright 1920 by Harcourt Brace & World Inc., renewed 1948 by Carl Sandburg, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & World Inc.; the lines from “Harp Song of the Dane Women” from
Puck of Pooks Hill
by Rudyard Kipling reprinted by permission of Mrs. George Bambridge and the Macmillan Company of Canada Limited.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and that of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s Ontario Book Initiative. We further acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program.

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