"Superbly written, with that sensitivity to sunset and afterglow that has always been Miss Cather's."βThe New York TimesWilla Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Like its predecessor, this novel of seventeenth-century Quebec
Vergil's Shadow on the Rock
β Scribed by Herbert C. Lipscomb
- Book ID
- 124382180
- Publisher
- Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc.
- Year
- 1940
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 337 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-8353
- DOI
- 10.2307/3291377
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