The Forest
This poignant novel, originally published in French in 1935, is a lyrical evocation of the beauty, the harshness, and the tragedy of pioneering life. Based on the author's own experience of homesteading in northern Alberta at the beginning of the twentieth century, the novel tells the story of a young couple from France, who come to the West filled with naïve optimism and romantic hope. Like Adam and Eve they end up being driven from their garden of paradise into a world of death and defeat. Georges Bugnet is a writer for whom nature is a mystical wonder filled with immense grandeur and equally immense destruction. He is conscious of humani…
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Weitere Autoren: Carpenter, David (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-55238-120-5
- EAN: 9781552381205
- Produktnummer: 17673697
- Verlag: Univ Of Calgary Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 231 g
- Gewicht: 231
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