Hundreds and Thousands

by Emily Carr

Book Overview

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1966, after the legendary artist and writer Emily Carr died in 1945, Hundreds and Thousands consists of her journals from 1927 to 1941. She began keeping a journal in 1927, when,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0772516170
• ISBN13: 9780772516176
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a very revealing and enjoyable read

Hundreds and Thousands are the journals of Emily Carr, spanning her life from 1927 to 1941. They offer great insight into her artistic development, opening with her visit to Toronto to meet with The Group of Seven, for the first time.Emily Carr is first and foremost known for her paintings, but many feel that her writing talent equaled or maybe surpassed her canvas art. In "Hundreds and Thousands" her simple sentence about her impressions while camping - The sun shouts, "Right about face," and every little dandelion looks him plumb in the eye. - reveals her simplistic descriptive wit.Another example that tickled me - The world comes into my room, kicks the silence about, smashes it to smithereens, and builds little cobweb bridges so your thoughts can cross to Germany and Russia, to France - the circumstance was her adjusting to her new radio.