W. O. Mitchell

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How I Spent My Summer Holidays

W. O. Mitchell

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000, 1998, 1981

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An Evening With W.O. Mitchell

W. O. Mitchell

The man who was the most memorable storyteller in Canada spins his favorite yarns -- including the time when at age 15 in Florida during a Fourth of July speech he forgot Mr. Lincoln's sacred words. Unruly white hair flying, fist raised, voice husky or thundering, W.O. Mitchell's performances of his work were unforgettable. Now you can hear "the familiar Prairie crackle" of W.O. Mitchells voice reading five of his favorite performance pieces in this 90-minute audio cassette. All pieces are taken from W.O. Mitchell's live performances before an audience (with much laughter), and all of them appear in the book An Evening With W.O. Mitchell, published in the fall of 1997. Each is introduced by Stuart McLean, the popular Canadian author and broadcaster. All of them catch the wonder of the unforgettable W.O. Mitchell reading to a delighted audience.

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Other editions: 2004, 2001, Softcover - 1999, Hardcover - 1997

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The Vanishing Point

W. O. Mitchell

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Other editions: 1973

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Since Daisy Creek

W. O. Mitchell

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1985, 1984

According to Jake and the Kid: A Collection of New Stories

W. O. Mitchell

W.O. Mitchell, Canada's favourite storyteller, is back with a new collection of stories about his most beloved characters, Jake, and the Kid. The millions of Canadians who know these characters from radio or television will enjoy re-entering the timeless world of the Kid, his mother, and Jake the hired man on their farm near the lively town of Crocus, Saskatchewan. The town is full of characters such as Repeat Golightly ("One ahead of you, Jake. I say there's one ahead of you") and Old Man Oatenby, brought from death's door by prolonged exposure to romantic purple prose. And of course there's Jake, teller of tall tales, and captor of "Looie Riel", who dispenses sage advice to the fatherless Kid.

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Other editions: 1995, 1989

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The Black Bonspiel of Willie Maccrimmon

W. O. Mitchell

At last, a book about curling, the noble sport that every winter turns otherwise sane Canadian men and women into broom-waving fanatics. Given the chance, any one of them would actively consider selling their soul to the devil for a chance to win the national championship known as "the Brier". That's the offer made to Willie MacCrimmon in this hilarious story by W. O. Mitchell. The time is the not-too-distant past, and the place is Shelby, Alberta, a small town in the foothills. Willie, a widower, is the town's shoe-maker, but like a good Scot he lives to curl; curling in fact is "his only active religion". He and his rink are so expert that he attracts the attention of the Devil himself, who comes to Shelby and makes him an offer hard to resist. The Devil (a keen curler - and how they keep good ice in hell is fully explained) promises Willie that he'll win the Brier - if on his death Willie will undertake to come and curl in hell for him in the Celestial Brier. Willie makes the Faustian deal - but with the proviso that he will save his soul if he and his Shelby rink can beat the Devil's rink in a challenge match. And so Willie and his friends - with the help of the Reverend Pringle - take on the Devil's crew of Judas, Macbeth and Guy Fawkes in the most crucial curling match of all time, a matter of after-life and death. It's a fine, old-fashioned funny story, as you'd expect from W. O. Mitchell. You might even call it a sweeping saga.

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