Stages

by Ray Goulding (Editor), June Warr (Editor)

Developed by a team of teachers working in conjunction with the publisher and the Department of Education, this junior high series presents a selection of Newfoundland prose, poetry, dramatic excerpts and the like in a series of three books. The editors have judiciously arranged the material in thematic order, and have challenged the student with questions, follow-up exercises, glossary and recommendations for further reading.

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Bob Elliott (born 1923) and Ray Goulding (1922–1990) were an American comedy team whose career spanned five decades.

"Bob & Ray invented, dreamed up the lines for, and then played, mainly on radio and television, a surrealistic Dickensian repertory company, which chastens the fools of the world with hyperbole, slapstick, parody, verbal nonsense, non sequitur, and sheer wit, all of it clean, subtle and gentle... Bob & Ray's humor turns on their faultless timing and on their infinite sense of the ridiculous. It is also framed by that special sly, dry, wasteless vision of life perfected during the last couple of centuries by middle-class New Englanders..."

-- Whitney Balliett, writing in The New Yorker

"Bob & Ray can go on being funny almost indefinately."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Reviews

[Noelle Walsh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first read this book as a textbook in high school and ended up keeping it even after graduation. It's full of stories and tunes and the like from the culture that is Newfoundland. I feel like I'm a bit closer to my native Newfie culture after reading this!