Shadows on the Rock (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Willa Cather
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1697-1713
- Setting: Quebec, Canada
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Colonies or colonization, France or French people, Guilt, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Canada or Canadians, Hunting or hunters, Priests, Frontier or pioneer life, Nobility, French Canadians, Pharmacies or pharmacists, Seasons
- Locales: Quebec, Canada
Characters Discussed
Euclide Auclair (ew-KLEED oh- KLAR), a temperate, humane, and philosophical apothecary living in Quebec at the end of the seventeenth century. Although loyal to his patron and friend, the Count de Frontenac, whom he accompanied to Canada in 1689, he feels that he has lived in exile for eight years, and he makes little effort to adjust his thinking or habits to life in a new land. At night, when he draws the curtains of his shop and sits down to dinner with his daughter Cécile, he likes to imagine that he is back in his beloved home on the Quai des...
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