The Woman in the Shadow

1930. Vance, American screenwriter, short story writer and novelist, begins The Woman in the Shadow: Those were dark days at the chateau and dull, dark nights and long. The year was wearing out in moods of sadness unrelieved. As if the very elements took their tune from the despair of the people, the sun was chary of its shine, the skies wept with little rest, frosts came before their time. The girl Gisella, braving the weather daily for her walk or ride, grew used to trudging sodden leafy carpets and viewing the hills with their Autumn livery whipped to tatters and all their wild beauty dimmed by drifting silver veils; and sometimes pausing on an elevation, would rest for minutes, dreaming on those swaying shades and seeing them as prison walls, not less real because so wraithlike, walls of wan enchantment shutting away sunlight, youth, and laughter, and all the pleasant ways of yesterday. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.


Genre: Children's Fiction