Shadows on the Rock (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Willa Cather
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: Late seventeenth century
- Setting: Quebec, Canada
- Principal Characters: Euclide Auclair, Cécile Auclair, Count Frontenac, Pierre Charron
- 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
The Story:
Late in October of 1697, the last ship left Quebec to return to France, and the colony of New France was isolated from the world until the arrival of the fleet in June or July of the following year. One of the persons who watched as the last vessel passed out of sight down the St. Lawrence River was Euclide Auclair, the apothecary in Quebec.
Auclair lived on the street that wound up the slope and connected the Upper Town on the cliff with the Lower Town, which clustered along the shore of the river at the foot of the mountain. In his home behind his shop,...
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