Annie S. Swan (1859–1943)
Autore di Thankful Rest
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Do not confuse with the Finnish writer Anni Swan
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Serie
Opere di Annie S. Swan
Aldersyde 4 copie
A Vexed Inheritance 4 copie
Ursula Vivian, the Sister-Mother 4 copie
For Lucy's Sake 2 copie
Maitland of Laurieston 2 copie
We travel home 2 copie
Who shall serve 2 copie
The burden-bearers 2 copie
Mary Garth 2 copie
The Pansy Annual 2 copie
Et vovespil 1 copia
The old order changes 1 copia
Love is of the valley 1 copia
Love's haven 1 copia
The ivory god 1 copia
The Maclure mystery 1 copia
Grannie's little girl 1 copia
Out of reach 1 copia
The end of the road 1 copia
Between the tides 1 copia
Kinsfolk 1 copia
The seekers 1 copia
Hester Lane 1 copia
A strong man's love 1 copia
The Bonnie Jean 1 copia
The land o' the leal 1 copia
Christian's Cross 1 copia
The Last of Their Race 1 copia
Das Gelübde 1 copia
Et Misgreb : Fortælling 1 copia
Miss Baxter's bequest 1 copia
Another man's money 1 copia
The land I love 1 copia
The loop of gold 1 copia
The old moorings 1 copia
Love, the master key 1 copia
The false and the true 1 copia
Paradisets Porte : Fortælling 1 copia
The curse of Cowden 1 copia
A Victory Won 1 copia
Jack's year of trial 1 copia
Songs of memory and hope 1 copia
Wilful Winnie : A tale 1 copia
The mystery of Barry Ingram 1 copia
Into the haven 1 copia
Grandmother's child 1 copia
Bond or free, by David Lyall 1 copia
The home-coming of the boys 1 copia
Ups and downs 1 copia
Hands across the sea 1 copia
The graven image, by David Lyall 1 copia
Married quarters, by David Lyall 1 copia
An English rose, by David Lyall 1 copia
The woman's part 1 copia
The Farrants 1 copia
The lost house, by David Lyall 1 copia
Love gives itself 1 copia
Letters to a war bride 1 copia
Meg Hamilton 1 copia
A favourite of fortune 1 copia
Handicapped, by David Lyall 1 copia
An American woman 1 copia
Prairie fires 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Girl's Budget of Short Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Swan, Annie Shepherd
- Data di nascita
- 1859
- Data di morte
- 1943
- Sesso
- female
- Breve biografia
- Full name Annie Shepherd Swan (aka Mrs. Burnett-Smith)
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Do not confuse with the Finnish writer Anni Swan
Utenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 142
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 257
- Popolarità
- #89,245
- Voto
- 2.5
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 53
- Lingue
- 1
Isla Mackinnon came out from the narrow doorway of the Castle of Achree, and stood for a moment on the broad step, worn by the feet of generations, while she thoughtfully drew on a pair of shabby, old leather gloves with gauntlets which came well up her slender arms. Hers were small, fine, capable hands, in which at that moment, though she knew it not, lay the whole destiny of Achree. Its very existence was to be threatened that cool, clear March day, and there was none but Isla to step into the breach.
She did not look incompetent; nay, about her there was a fine strength and courage, in her wide grey-blue eyes an undaunted spirit.
It was a spirit that had had much to try its quality in her six-and-twenty years of life, for half of which, at least, she had been the chief buttress and hope of the house of her fathers.
She looked her age, though her figure was very slender and straight. The years that had brought her womanhood had left her the heart of a child. It looked out from the clear eyes under the delicate lashes, it was in the slightly downward curves of the small sensitive mouth that had not had sufficient occasion for smiles to bring out all its sweetness.
Her hair, under the small tweed hat turned up at the brim with a pheasant's wing, was a clear brown, with here and there a touch of the sun inclining it to ruddy gold. She wore a short skirt of Harris tweed, leather-bound, and a woollen coat of her own knitting, a pair of brown brogues well fitted to her shapely feet, and under her arm she had a shepherd's crook with a whistle at the end of it.
Presently, when its clear, low call broke the stillness of the morning, three dogs came bounding from some region beyond the house, betraying a wild excitement which even her remonstrance could not keep in check.… (altro)