Author: Major John Richardson
ISBN: 0-915317-20-6
PRICE: $25.00 Cdn & US
Major John Richardson, Canada's first novelist, was ranked among the best writers of the nineteenth century. His Wacousta, which told of the siege of Fort Detroit by Pontiac in 1763, went through many editions and was widely read in Great Britain and North America from its publication in 1832 well into the 20th century. He wrote The Monk Knight of St John in New York City in 1850; it became an underground best seller; it depicted the famous battle of Tiberias between the Crusading Knights and the Saracens against a background of amoral anarchy, and explored the ensuing passionate love-making begun in Palestine and carried on in Auvergne, France, in many and varied forms. A pattern of triangulated sexual relationships brings the protagonists into conflict and finally into resolution.
