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My Ántonia
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This novel about the friendship between two Nebraska children, Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda is considered Cather's masterpiece. The fortunes of the two families are opposed: the Burdens thrive while the Shimerdas decline, a downfall that culminates in the suicide of Antonia's father, which forces the girl to work in the fields and then as a ...
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O Pioneers
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Willa Cather's O PIONEERS!, first published in 1913, tells the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who successfully takes over the management of the family farm upon her father's death. The story encompasses Alexandra's difficult relationships with her brothers, Oscar and Lou, her love for a neighbor, Carl ...
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Cather's episodic novel, based on a true story but heavily fictionalized, is about the literal and spiritual journey of Bishop Lamy and his vicar in the American Southwest in the mid-1800s, and is a tribute to the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church to improve the lives of the Hopi and Navajo Indians in the area. Full of readable and fascinating ...
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Song of the Lark
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Based on the career of Metropolitan Opera star Olive Femstad this novel traces the life of Thea Kronberg, a singer who leaves small-town Colorado to go to Chicago to study music, where she rises to the top of her profession. After a turbulent life that includes the death of a lover, exploitation by a teacher, and a passionate affair with a married ...
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One of Ours
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This novel about a farm boy who comes into his own on the battlefields of France in World War I, where he dies heroically, was called "a manly battle yarn" by its author. It won the Pulitzer Price in 1922.
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The Professor's House
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When he and his wife move to a new house, Professor Godfrey St. Peter is uncomfortable with the materialistic turn his life is taking. Stubbornly, he clings to his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life and values. In addition, he is finding difficulties coping with the marriages of his two daughters which have not ...
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A Lost Lady
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The story of Marian Forrester, a wife and then a widow in a small Nebraska town, and Niel Herbert, the narrator, who has been devoted to her since he was a child, is one of Cather's lesser-known novels, but considered by many to be one of her best. Marian is a refined and civilizing presence in the rough town to which her marriage to a rich man ...
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl
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Willa Cather's Southern plantation story, set in 1856, challenges the widely accepted stereotype of the Southern lady. First published in 1940, the novel tells a story Cather heard when she was growing up in Virginia. about a small-town miller, a beautiful mulatto slave girl named Nancy Till, and the miller's jealous wife--Sapphira--who is ...
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Shadows on the Rock
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"Shadows on the Rock," written after Willa Cather discovered Quebec City during an unplanned stay in 1928, is the second of her "Catholic" historical novels and reflects her fascination with finding a little piece of France in eastern Canada. Set in the late seventeenth century, the novel centers on the activities of the widowed apothecary Euclide ...
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Alexanders Bridge
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Willa Cather's novel, which takes place in Boston, tells the story of a successful engineer whose life contains everything but happiness. Then he meets an old love--an Irish actress--and begins a clandestine affair, and not only his marriage but his entire universe is threatened.
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My mortal enemy
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This novel is about selfishness and obstinacy--personified in a woman who destroys herself by her own lack of discipline. Written in 1926, it is a short but piercing story that looks bleakly at love, marriage, and conventional morality.
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Lucy Gayheart
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Lucy Gayheart, aged 18, leaves her small-town lover to go to Chicago to study music. She has a tempestuous love affair with an aging charmer--a singer for whom she abandons her career, a decision that leads eventually to her destruction.
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The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science
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Willa Cather
This controversial biography of the founder of the Christian Science church was serialized in 'McClure's Magazine' in 1907-8 and published as a book the next year. It disappeared almost overnight and has been difficult to find ever since.
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Great Short Works of Willa Cather
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Willa Cather, Robert Keith Miller (Introduction by)
A luminous collection--with an introduction, notes, chronology, and bibliography--of ten of Willa Cather's short works written from 1900 to 1920.
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Obscure Destinies
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This volume contains three short novels, first published in 1925, and all set in small Midwestern towns: "Neighbor Rosicky," "Old Mrs. Harris," and "Two Friends."
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Youth and the bright Medusa
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Cather's lyrical, economical stories are renowned for their sense of place, and for their incisive depiction of the effects of that place on a newcomer. This collection of stories emphasizes the lives and careers of artists--one of Cather's perennial themes.
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Collected Stories
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Cather's lyrical, economical stories--often about artists and their relationship to an insensitive and uncomprehending world--are renowned for their sense of place, and for their incisive depiction of the effects of that place on a newcomer.
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The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexican Pueblos
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Paula Gunn Allen, Willa Cather, Frank Hamilton Cushing
A representative collection of the artistic achievements of the Pueblo culture--one of the most enduring in North America. Selections include works of poetry, prose, autobiography, and historical narratives, as well as an introduction to the many kinds of arts created by the Pueblo people. Colorful mixed-media illustrations accompany the text.
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Cather: Later Novels
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Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien (Editor)
Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation. Includes A Lost Lady, The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadow on the Rock, Lucy Gayheart, and Cather's last and most personal novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl.
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The Troll Garden
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Cather's first short-story collection (1905) includes seven stories about art, artists, the West, and the literary world of the East Coast; the theme of all of them is the search for beauty in an imperfect world. The book was very successful, and on its strength she was hired as managing editor of McClure's Magazine, a New York monthly. Stories ...
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Cather: Early Novels and Stories
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Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien (Editor)
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
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Shadows on the Rock: Reissue
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Death CMS 4 Archb V679
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Professor's House V913
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When he and his wife move to a new house, Professor Godfrey St. Peter is uncomfortable with the materialistic turn his life is taking. Stubbornly, he clings to his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life and values. In addition, he is finding difficulties coping with the marriages of his two daughters which have not ...
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Willa Cather.
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Willa Cather
This edition contains three complete novels that are considered Cather's best: O PIONEERS! (1913), THE SONG OF THE LARK (1915), and ALEXANDER'S BRIDGE (1912).
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