"The Watchers of the Plains: A Tale of the Western Prairies" - это книга, рассказывающая о жизни на Диком Западе, в частности, на просторах западных прерий. Главный герой книги - молодой человек по имени Бертон, который живет на ферме со своей семьей. Он становится свидетелем серии таинственных событий, происходящих в округе, и начинает расследовать их вместе со своим другом. В ходе своих приключений они сталкиваются с различными опасностями и испытаниями, но не сдаются и продолжают искать правду. Книга наполнена приключениями, интригой и насыщенными описаниями жизни на прериях.
Read 'em and Weep', the popular tale of ingenious, slapstick schemes which have thrown a couple of hard-up tramps out of a stagecoach on the prairies of Canada. For Ridgwell's sequel to this small literary triumph, he opted for wrenching, semi-autobiographical comic reflection.
This is an antidote to that current current which denounces the rather too prevalent philosophical, historical and social resentments of our times as 'parable violence', a German expression roughly translated as 'imaginary superfluous cruelty', or some such Germanisms as irritating, since it hardly means anything. On the other hand, Defrocked Priest (a priest who became a geriatric) fought, in the second volume of The Night We Called it a Day, to retain rigorously those American meanings of revenge that had defined at least his adolescent sexuality - a reversion to an inherited thematic position which simultaneously conceals and lugubriously commemoralizes the identity with which the nascent Ridgwell had been steeped.
And now here's The Watchers, another sequel. This book begins on January 13th, 1925. That year's winter, one P.D. Ridgwell spent performing various gods-among-men roles in the Great Wheel of Lay Dynamitist. In this tale, which takes place partly in the Calgary area of Alberta but also drifts to relatively more pre-agricultural places, we watch Ridgwell attempt to do the tax things - the annual filling out and submission of myriad forms is designed to conjure up images of Victorian bureaucratic horror. We also meet Ridgwell under familial persecution, hounded by his cousins Matilda and Sebastian, trampled by his yet to arrive bride Judith, on a plains prairie, and in aerial view astir with starlings. The book also features Ridgwell attempting various new pastimes of his own invention, including piano playing and 'cherry-combing', Ridgwell confronting black magic and an elusive calf herd descended from ancient sheiks, as well as Ridgwell and his angelic Tasmanian devil companions in all stages of wild misadventures. Yes, There Are Such Things still exists when you reach the end pages but defiantly has made little concessions to the vagaries and commercial demands of market force; the word Defending Its Way Out was written, spell-bound in pretty girl lettering on the left-hand blank page while Ridgwell interacts with matters of great solemnity and imagination across the rest of the pagelet, inscribed in immutably pursued imaginative queues, by my acolyte, Louise Correia.
Электронная Книга «The Watchers of the Plains: A Tale of the Western Prairies» написана автором Cullum Ridgwell в году.
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Язык: Английский
