The Major - Couverture souple

Ralph Connor, Connor; Ralph Connor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1421845679 ISBN 13 : 9781421845678

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

Spring had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the glory of the triumphant sun which flooded the concave blue of heaven and the myriad shaded green of earth, the whole world knew to-day, the whole world proclaimed that spring had come. The yearly miracle had been performed. The leaves of the maple trees lining the village street unbound from their winter casings, the violets that lifted brave blue eyes from the vivid grass carpeting the roadside banks, the cherry and plum blossoms in the orchards decking the still leafless trees with their pink and white favours, the timid grain tingeing with green the brown fields that ran up to the village street on every side-all shouted in chorus that spring had come. And all the things with new blood running wild in their veins, the lambs of a few days still wobbly on ridiculous legs skipping over and upon the huge boulders in farmer Martin's meadow, the birds thronging the orchard trees, the humming insects rioting in the genial sun, all of them gave token of strange new impulses calling for something more than mere living because spring had come.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

CHAPTER I THE COWARD SPRING had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the glory of the triumphant sun which flooded the concave blue of heaven and the myriad shaded green of earth, the whole world knew to-day, the whole world proclaimed that spring had come. The yearly miracle had been performed. The leaves of the maple trees lining the village street unbound from their winter casings, the violets that lifted brave blue eyes from the vivid grass carpeting the roadside banks, the cherry and plum blossoms in the orchards decking the still leafless trees with their pink and white favours, the timid grain tingeing with green the brown fields that ran up to the village street on every side-all shouted in chorus that spring had come. And all the things with new blood running wild in their veins, the lambs of a few days still wobbly on ridiculous legs skipping over and upon the huge boulders in farmer Martin's meadow, the

Table of Contents

I The Coward 11; II A Fight for Freedom 24; III The Escutcheon Cleared 36; IV Salvage 47; V Westward Ho! 60; VI Jane Brown 72; VII The Girl op the Wood Lot 91; VIII You Forgot Me 112; IX Except He Strive Lawfully 128; X The Spirit or Canada 137; XI The Shadow of War 151; XII Men and a Mine 171; XIII A Day in September 184; XIV An Extraordinary Nurse 198; XV The Coming of Jane 213; XVI Hospitality without Grudging 228; XVII The Tragedies of Love 244; XVIII The Voice en the Wilderness 255; XIX The Closing of the Door 277; XX The German Type of Cittzenshtp 287; XXI War 307; XXII The Tuck of Drum 332; XXIII A Neutral Nation 348; XXIV The Major and the Major's Wefe 363

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Biographie de l'auteur

Canadian novelist and Presbyterian minister, who wrote several popular novels that coalesces adventure, emotions and religious morality under the pseudonym Ralph Conner. He was educated at the University of Toronto, Knox College, Toronto and University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was ordained by a Presbyterian minister and he served as a missionary to mining and lumber camps in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Gordon used his experiences as a Presbyterian minister in the Canadian West to write his novels. He wrote over 20 novels including A Tale of the Selkirks (1898), Black Rock (1899), The Sky Pilot (1899), The Man from Glengarry (1901), The Major (1917), The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land (1919), To Him That Hath (1921), The Arm of Gold (1932), The Man from Glengarry and Glengarry School Days (1902), The Life of James Robertson (1908), and his own autobiography, Postscript to Adventure (1938).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421845679
• ISBN 13: 9781421845678
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 460
• Éditeur: 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible