Tragic Romances

Tragic Romances - Re-issue of the Shorter Stories of Fiona Macleod; Rearranged, with Additional Tales

It is Destiny, then, that is the Protagonist in the Celtic Drama And it is Destiny, that sombre Demogorgon of the Gael, whose boding breath, whose menace, whose shadow glooms so much of the remote life I know, and hence glooms also this book of interpretations: for pages of life must either be interpretative or merely documentary, and these following pages have for the most part been written as by one who repeats, with curious insistence, a haunting, familiar, yet ever wild and remote air, whose obscure meanings he would fain reiterate, interpret. In this volume all the tales, except the first and last, are re-issued from The Sin-Eater. Morag of the Glen is reprinted from the November issue of The Savoy; The Archer has not hitherto appeared in print. As the other tales have not been reset, they are, except in the matter of pagination and arrangement, necessarily unaltered. It was a black hour for Archibald Campbell of Gorromalt in Strathglas, and for his wife and for Morag their second daughter, when the word came that Muireall had the sorrow of sorrows. What is pain, and is death a thing to fear? But there is a sorrow that no man can have and yet go free for evermore of a shadow upon his brow: and there is a sorrow that no woman can have and keep the moonshine in her eyes. And when a woman has this sorrow, it saves or mars her: though, for sure, none of us may discern just what that saving may be, or from whom or what, or what may be that bitter or sweet ruin. We are shaped as clay in the potters hand: ancient wisdom, that we seldom learn till the hand is mercifully still, and the vessel, finished for good or evil, is broken. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 53839
Author: Sharp, William
Release Date: Dec 30, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English