At the end of the 17th century in Quebec, C?cile Auclair and her father, the town's apothecary, live a life very different than the one they knew in Paris.
Song of the Lark: A novelist and short-story writer, Willa Cather is today widely regarded as one of the foremost American authors of the twentieth century. Particularly renowned for the memorable women she created for such works as My Antonia and O Pioneers!, she pens the portrait of another formidable character in The Song of the Lark. This, her third novel, traces the struggle of the woman as artist in an era when a woman's role was far more rigidly defined than it is today.