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The Laird’s Luck And Other Fireside Tales

The Laird’s Luck And Other Fireside Tales

Arthur Quiller-Couch

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Double9 Books LLP
Año de edición:
2026
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Familia y relaciones
ISBN:
9789378306402
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The laird’s luck and other fireside tales gather evocative vignettes where fate’s capricious hand weaves valour dishonour camaraderie and poignant reckonings amid Scottish hearths and Napoleonic battlefields illuminating human complexity against fortune’s unyielding whims. It opens with a Highland ensign’s tragic arc shadowed by unproven accusations as comrades reflect on battlefield brotherhood loyalty’s burdens and leaders’ introspections over stained honour at crucial clashes like Quatre Bras revealing soldiers grit amid musket smoke desperate charges and fate’s cruel lottery. Themes of martial fortune moral ambiguity fraternal bonds battlefield terror redemptive reflection cultural pride and existential gambles saturate these fireside chronicles underscoring tensions between heroic ideals personal failings providential twists and hearthside wisdoms that bind warriors’ souls through glory’s haze guilt’s weight and camaraderie’s enduring fire. Through soldierly banter tactical desperation and elegiac musings the collection captures live precarious dance where luck lairdship and human frailty forge legends from battlefield dust and domestic glow.

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