Self Condemned

VOYAGEUR CLASSICS

BOOKS THAT EXPLORE CANADA

Michael Gnarowski — Series Editor

The Dundurn Group presents the Voyageur Classics series, building on the tradition of exploration and rediscovery and bringing forward time-tested writing about the Canadian experience in all its varieties.

This series of original or translated works in the fields of literature, history, politics, and biography has been gathered to enrich and illuminate our understanding of a multi-faceted Canada. Through straightforward, knowledgeable, and reader-friendly introductions the Voyageur Classics series provides context and accessibility while breathing new life into these timeless Canadian masterpieces.

The Voyageur Classics series was designed with the widest possible readership in mind and sees a place for itself with the interested reader as well as in the classroom. Physically attractive and reset in a contemporary format, these books aim at an enlivened and updated sense of Canada’s written heritage.

OTHER VOYAGEUR CLASSICS TITLES

The Blue Castle
by Lucy Maud Montgomery, introduced by Dr.
Collett Tracey 978-1-55002-666-5
Canadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology
, edited and introduced by
Germaine Warkentin 978-1-55002-661-0
Combat Journal for Place d’Armes: A Personal Narrative
by Scott Symons,
introduced by Christopher Elson 978-1-55488-457-5
The Donnellys
by James Reaney, introduced by Alan Filewod
978-1-55002-832-4
Empire and Communications
by Harold A. Innis, introduced by
Alexander John Watson 978-1-55002-662-7
The Firebrand:William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada
by William Kilbourn, introduced by Ronald Stagg 978-1-55002-800-3
In This Poem I Am: Selected Poetry of Robin Skelton
, edited and
introduced by Harold Rhenisch 978-1-55002-769-3
The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser 1806–1808
, edited and introduced
by W. Kaye Lamb, foreword by Michael Gnarowski 978-1-55002-713-6
Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of French Canada
by Louis Hémon,
translated by W.H. Blake, introduction and notes by Michael
Gnarowski 978-1-55002-712-9
Mrs. Simcoe’s Diary
by Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, edited and
introduced by Mary Quayle Innis, foreword by Michael Gnarowski
978-1-55002-768-6
Pilgrims of the Wild
, edited and introduced by Michael Gnarowski
978-1-55488-734-7
The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
by Benjamin Drew,
introduced by George Elliott Clarke 978-1-55002-801-0
The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune
by Ted Allan
and Sydney Ostrovsky, introduced by Julie Allan, Dr. Norman Allan,
and Susan Ostrovsky 978-1-55488-402-5
Selected Writings
by A.J.M. Smith, edited and introduced by Michael
Gnarowski 978-1-55002-665-8
Storm Below
by Hugh Garner, introduced by Paul Stuewe
978-1-55488-456-8
A Tangled Web
by Lucy Maud Montgomery, introduced by Benjamin
Lefebvre 978-1-55488-403-2
The Yellow Briar: A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside
by
Patrick Slater, introduced by Michael Gnarowski 978-1-55002-848-5

FORTHCOMING

The Men of the Last Frontier
by Grey Owl, introduced by James Polk
978-1-55488-804-7
The Silence on the Shore
by Hugh Garner, introduced by George
Fetherling 978-1-55488-782-8

VOYAGEUR CLASSICS

BOOK STHAT EXPLORE CANADA

SELF
CONDEMNED

A NOVEL

WYNDHAM LEWIS

INTRODUCED BY ALLAN PERO

DUNDURN PRESS
TORONTO

Copyright © Dundurn Press, 2010
Introduction copyright © Allan Pero, 2010
Self Condemned
was originally published by Methuen & Company in 1954.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

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Copy Editors: Matt Baker and Nicole Chaplin
Design: Courtney Horner
Printer: Marquis

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957

Self condemned / by Wyndham Lewis ; introduction by Allan Pero.

ISBN 978-1-55488-735-4

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PR6023.E97S4 2010             823'.912               C2010-903915-7

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Canada Council for the Arts
and the
Ontario Arts Council
for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the
Government of
Canada
through the
Canada Book Fund
and
The Association for the Export of Canadian
Books
, and the
Government of Ontario
through the
Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit
program
, and the
Ontario Media Development Corporation
.

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