Originally published in 1896, In the Village of Viger was Duncan Campbell Scott´s inaugural collection of short stories. Focusing on the daily lives and vicissitudes of the people in a small Quebec town at the turn of the century, In the Village of Viger has been hailed as a sensitive and realistic evocation of Canadian rural life. By deftly creating a system of themes, motifs, characters, and symbols that recur throughout the closely interlinked short stories, In the Village of Viger anticipates other Canadian short-story cycles such as Stephen Leacock´s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town . Accompanying Scott´s In the Village of Viger is a wealth of documentary and critical material that will contextualize the work for students and readers of early Canadian literature. Early reviews of both the first edition (1896) and the Canadian edition (1945) provide readers with a glimpse into the book´s critical reception at the time of its publication. Correspondence both to and from Scott, most of which is published here for the first time, enables readers to see how both editions evolved and developed from conception to finished product. Essays by J.D. Logan and Donald G. French, Glenn Clever, Stan Dragland, Carole Gerson, W.H. New, Gerald Lynch, and Tracy Ware demonstrate to readers how the work has been treated critically throughout the twentieth century. Robert G. May is an assistant professor (adjunct) at Queen´s University, Kingston. A Canadian literature specialist, he has written on Duncan Campbell Scott, F.R. Scott, Gary Geddes, and John Barton.