The White Narcissus

The White Narcissus was first published in 1929. Raymond Knister, Canadain novelist and poet, wrote in great detail about rural Ontario, and about farm life in the 1920s. Richard Milne, struggles to redeem his childhood sweetheart from the spiritual imprisonment of her parents' home. He returns to his old stomping grounds in Ontario, and seeks out Ada Lethen, who he is still smitten with after so many years away from home. First published in 1929, White Narcissus was a groundbreaking...
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The White Narcissus was first published in 1929. Raymond Knister, Canadain novelist and poet, wrote in great detail about rural Ontario, and about farm life in the 1920s. Richard Milne, struggles to redeem his childhood sweetheart from the spiritual imprisonment of her parents' home. He returns to his old stomping grounds in Ontario, and seeks out Ada Lethen, who he is still smitten with after so many years away from home. First published in 1929, White Narcissus was a groundbreaking work in the development of the Canadian realist novel, fusing Knister's imagistic sensibility with the deeply felt experience of a real time and place.Knister died tragically at the age of thirty-three, before his contribution was recognized in his own country and before the full potential of his remarkable talent could be realized.