"Spiritual Tales" by William Sharp, writing as Fiona Macleod, is a collection of stories steeped in Celtic myth and moral lessons from the end of the 1800s which features characters like the dignified Dùvach and the puzzling Bride. In the early stories, a herdsman from Iona, Dùvach, who is secretly royalty but burdened by exile for a past deed, lives with Bride. It's also revealed that Bride is a girl of striking beauty with a mysterious background. The stories follow Dùvach confronting his past, and a prophecy about Bride that suggests she has links to the divine. The prose paints striking images with elegant language, pulling readers into a mystical island setting where familiar myths meet moral storytelling through examining love, sacrifice, and the place of divinity in humanity.
Spiritual Tales Re-issue of the Shorter Stories of Fiona Macleod; Rearranged, with Additional Tales
By William Sharp
On mystical isles, a noble herdsman and a beautiful, enigmatic child face destiny amidst tales of love, sacrifice, and the divine.
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About the AuthorWilliam Sharp was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
William Sharp was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
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