THE ATHENAEUMThe Golden DogWilliam Kirby
Novel
The Golden Dog
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textWilliam Kirby, who left England at fifteen and settled at Niagara, set this romance in Quebec in 1748, in the last years of New France, when the Intendant Bigot and his friends were robbing the colony. Its title is the carved and gilded dog gnawing a bone, over a verse promising revenge, that still looks down from a wall in the old city. Published in 1877, it was for a long time the best-known Canadian novel, in English and in French.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 15 hr 25 min
- Where to find it
- The Canadian Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2735. In the public domain in the United States.