Scott, Duncan Campbell

Uncollected Short Stories (Post-Confederation Poetry)

Selected Stories Of Duncan Campbell Scott (Canadian Short Stories Series)

Although he is perhaps better known as a poet, Duncan Campbell Scott's many short stories are worthy of attention for their quiet power and enduring readability. This volume brings together a selection of stories that range across a diversity of settings: a typical village of nineteenth-century Quebec, a genteel household in the Ottawa of the 1870s, the isolation of an Indian village on the north short of Lake Superior.

Witching of Elspie: A Book of Stories (Short story index reprint series)

In the Village of Viger and Other Stories (New Canadian Library)

Set in the fictional village of Viger, Duncan Campbell Scott’s ten stories present a community torn apart by madness, festering jealousies, and lifelong animosities. From the almost demonic presence of “The Pedler” to the tender innocence of “The Bobolink” and the humour of “The Wooing of Monsieur Cuerrier,” the collection explores a rural village facing the darkness of its own future.

First published in 1896, In The Village of Viger is now recognized as a story cycle rather than merely a collection, hence standing at the beginning of a long tradition that includes such classics as Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House.