- Fiction, History, Scottish Americans, Translations into French
When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate. It came to little, being no more than that I should miss love and fortune in the sunlight and find them in the rain.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and cool.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Buchan
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 268
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, House of Stratus, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Editions
- 191
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781071210017
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A Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan>Wikipedia</a>).
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