Willa Cather
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English
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Willa Cather's darkest and most dramatic work, My Mortal Enemy is an agonisingly honest examination of marriage, love, and the evolution of a single person's life.
This 1926 novella depicts a life set for fortune that ultimately results in spite and bitterness. Myra Henshawe, an Irish Catholic, abandoned her uncle and her fortuitous inheritance, instead eloping with her true love, an Ulster Protestant. But is love alone enough to sustain a marriage?...
45) The Great Plains Collection - Three Volumes in One: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, & My Ántonia
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English
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It's nearing the end of the nineteenth century, and prairie life in the Great Plains of America is harsh and unforgiving. Willa Cather's writing effortlessly captures the hearts and minds of immigrants as they make a new life in the states.
The Great Plains Collection is the complete set of Willa Cather's masterful trilogy in one volume. At the turn of the twentieth century, European immigrants were settling into North America. Prairie life was...
46) The Troll Garden
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English
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The Troll Garden is a classic collection of short stories by American author Willa Cather. Contained here in this volume are the following tales: Flavia and Her Artists, The Sculptor's Funeral, A Death in the Desert, The Garden Lodge, The Marriage of Phædra, A Wagner Matinee, and Paul's Case.
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English
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How do we continue with life when we no longer have anything to look forward to? Willa Cather ponders the time-old question in this short, intense novel.
Professor Godfrey St. Peter leads a successful life. He has a wonderful wife, his two daughters recently married, and he was just awarded an esteemed literary prize. But when it's time for his hard work to pay off and the Professor's family is ready to move into their grand new home, he finds...
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English
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From one of the greatest minds of twentieth-century American literature, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady follows the steady downfall of a popular socialite, mirroring the decline of the idealised pioneering era.
Niel Herbert fell in love with Marion Forrester when he was just a young boy. The American socialite is married to a successful railroad pioneer, Captain Daniel Forrester, and she is the perfect woman. Marion's beauty is incomparable, and her...
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English
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and author of O Pioneers! (1913) comes this collection of poetry, published between 1892 and 1933. Willa Cather experiments in style and theme, with many of her poems drawing from her own experiences.
Willa Cather is known for her remarkable fiction, most notably her Great Plains trilogy and One of Ours (1922), a World War I novel for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. This collection of her poetry...
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English
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Willa Cather's profound Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is an almost serene World War I story. One of Ours captures the inner depths of ordinary people and delves into their everyday thoughts and lives.
Claude Wheeler is struggling to find direction for his life. Under his parents' wishes, he is studying at a Christian college, but he lacks the devout, pious attitude that comes so easily to his mother. When his father expands the family farm, Claude...
55) Lucy Gayheart
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English
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A young girl in an American village goes to Chicago to study music, falls in love with a middle-aged singer, knows a brief moment of contentment, and then the pain of a separation that is final.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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A first publication of the acclaimed writer's personal correspondences includes whimsical teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles with aging. -- Publishers Description.
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Library of America volume 35
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1987
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English
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The first of three volumes presenting the writings of Willa Cather includes her early book of stories and first four novels. The troll garden: Cather's first short story collection, originally published in 1905, depicts characters who seek the realm of beauty and imagination, but are confronted by the vulgarity and brutality of American society. O pioneers!: In Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson leads...
58) Later novels
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Library of America volume 49
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1990
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English
