![]() ![]() “After all, the world still existed, Auclair was thinking, as he stood looking up the way La Bonne Espѐrance had gone out only an hour ago. Euclide came to Quebec in the service of Count de Frontenac, the governor of the Quebec colony. Lawrence River, watching as the last ship of the season returns to France, he silently longs to return to his native country himself soon. As he stands on Cap Diamant, which overlooks the St. The novel opens in 1697, Euclide Auclair apothecary and physician, has been in Quebec for eight years. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.” “Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. As with her novels of Pioneer life in the Nebraskan Prairies, in Shadows on the Rock, Cather examines the European immigrant experience, the pull of home, and the dawn of a new age. ![]() There is not much of an actual plot as such we follow instead the inhabitants of Quebec through one typical year – with an epilogue taking place fifteen years later. Set in seventeenth century Quebec City among the French settlers who struggle to survive the harsh winters, looking forward to the yearly arrival of ships from France bearing news and goods from home. Published in America in 1931, Shadows on the Rock was one of Willa Cather’s later works, and one with, unusually, a historical setting. ![]()
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