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Shadows on the Rock is a novel by the American writer Willa Cather, published in 1931. The novel covers one year of the lives of Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide, French colonists in Quebec. Like many of Cather's books, the story is driven by detailed portraits of the characters, rather than a narrative plot.
- Willa Cather
- 1931
Shadows on the Rock. Willa Cather. 4.00. 2,782 ratings446 reviews. Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and women who struggled to adapt to the new world even as they clung to the one they left behind. Genres Historical FictionFictionClassicsCanada HistoricalAmericanNovels. ...more.
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Beneath it the rock fell away in a succession of terraces like a circular staircase; on one of these was the new Bishop's new Palace, its gardens on the terrace below. Not one building on the rock was on the same level with any other,--and two hundred feet below them all was the Lower Town, crowded along the narrow strip of beach between the river's edge and the perpendicular face of the cliff.
Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Like its predecessor, this novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to that new world even as they clung to the artifacts and manners ...
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19. Dez. 2016 · Shadows on the Rock : Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Publication date. 1931. Topics. English. Publisher. New York, A. A. Knopf. Collection. ualbertawiedrick; university_of_alberta_libraries; toronto. Contributor. University of Alberta Libraries. Language. English.
Shadows on the Rock, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1931. The novel is a detailed study of the lives of French colonists in the late 1600s on the “rock” that is Quebec city, Quebec, Canada. Like many of Cather’s novels, Shadows on the Rock evokes the pioneer spirit and emphasizes the importance of religious tradition.
31. Jan. 2023 · Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather. Publication date 1931 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-01-31 06:11:14 A ...
