The moment when a woman realizes that she has nothing to live for—neither love, duty, purpose nor hope—holds for her the bitterness of death.You see—I’ve never had any real life…I’ve just –breathed. Every door has always been shut to me. Valancy Stirling is 29 years old and miserable. Unmarried, without prospects and living at home …
Category: Canadian Literature
Rilla of Ingleside, LM Montgomery (1921)
Before this war is over, every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it—you, Mary, will feel it—feel it to your heart’s core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come—and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will …