Shadows on the Rock

Shadows on the Rock

Novel set in seventeenth-century Canada - New France - maneuvering between a widower, his family and guests, and the great political figures of the time. Written by Cather out of a brief obsession with Québec and French Canada in the early twentieth century. From the University of Nebraska Press 2005 reprint: "To Auclair's house and shop come trappers, missionaries, craftsmen, the indigent—those seeking cures, a taste of France, or liberation from the corruptions caused there by the excesses of the French court. Set against these fictional characters, historical personages such as Bishop Laval, Count Frontenac, and others contend in the political life of the vast colony."

Cather, Willa

A.A. Knopf

1931

English

Book

No

1st

280

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