Earth's Enigmas

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Action & Adventure Fiction, Nature & Animal Fiction, Single Author Collections

Authors: Sir Charles G. D. Roberts In Year : 1896

Book Language: English

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Do Seek their Meat from God
The Perdu
The Young Ravens that Call upon Him
Within Sound of the Saws
The Butt of the Camp
In the Accident Ward
The Romance of an Ox-Team
A Tragedy of the Tides
At the Rough-and-Tumble Landing
An Experience of Jabez Batterpole
The Stone Dog
The Barn on the Marsh
Captain Joe and Jamie
Strayed
The Eye of Gluskâp

Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there is no adequate solution within sight. Others are the almost literal transcript of dreams which seemed to me to have a coherency, completeness, and symbolic significance sufficiently marked to justify me in setting them down. The rest are scenes from that simple life of Canadian backwoods and tide-country with which my earlier years made me familiar. - Summary by CHARLES G D ROBERTS