Word: shalott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Druids' Stones. Duncan Cameron's life has been a pastel daydream. His widowed mother has raised him in a pettishly feminine atmosphere; to the 13-year-old boy home is an "enchanted castle, like the Lady of Shalott's." When his mother dies and he rides off to his Uncle Gerald's shabby farm, the boy's heart twists in fear. He remembers Gerald as an ex-army man, redolent of polished leather, who fills him with indefinable alarm. Nevertheless, at first the orphan is surprised and delighted with his new home, relishes its bouncy...