Shadows on the Rock
by Willa Cather
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf 1931
ISBN/ASIN: B005FY6PYQ
Number of pages: 240
Description:
Set in the late seventeenth century, the novel centers on the activities of the widowed apothecary Euclide Auclair and his young daughter, Cecile. 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.
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