Books by Willa Cather
Born: 12/07/1876; Died: 04/24/1947Willa Cather Biography & Notes
Willa Cather (b. December 7, 1873 in Virginia; d. April 24, 1947 in New York) is among the most eminent female American authors. She is known for her depictions of US prairie life in novels like O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Cather was born in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley but her family relocated to Nebraska in 1883 and she spent the rest of her childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska. She insisted on attending college, so her family borrowed money so she could enroll at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While there she became a regular contributor to the Nebraska State Journal.
After failing to obtain a position at UNL, she moved to Pennsylvania, where she taught high school and worked for Home Monthly and McClure's Magazine. The latter publication serialized her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, which was heavily influenced by Henry James. She met author Sarah Orne Jewett, who advised Cather to rely less on the influence of James and more on her native Nebraska.
For her novels she returned to the prarie for inspiration, and these works became popular and critical successes. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours (1922). She was celebrated by critics like H.L. Mencken for writing about ordinary people in plainspoken language. When he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Sinclair Lewis said Cather should have won it instead. However, later critics attacked Cather, a political conservative, for ignoring the plight of those ordinary people and tended to favor more experimental authors.
In 1973, Willa Cather was honored by the United States Postal Service with her image on a postage stamp.
The Willa Cather House on 245 Cedar Street in Red Cloud is where her most prominent literary works were written between 1884 and 1890. There is also the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Educarional Foundation on 326 N. Webster Street is a bookstore and an art gallery. There is art from some of her books, and some limited edition collector's prints are there.
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38 Short Stories by American Women Writers Five Books by Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather ( 1996) |
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Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather ( 2002)
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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Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ by Willa Cather, Alfred Noyes ( 2008) |
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Alexander's Bridge and the Barrel Organ by Willa Cather, Alfred Noyes ( 2009) |
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Alexander's Bridge, and The Barrel Organ by Willa Cather, Alfred Noyes ( 2007) |
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Alexanders Bridge Library Edition by Willa Cather ( 2001) |
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American Classics Collection The Age of Innocence, My Antonia, Little Women, the Scarlett Letter by Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Alcotthawthorne ( 2000) |
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American Pioneer Writers by Willa Cather ( 1991) |
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April Twilights by Willa Cather ( 1990)
This volume of Cather's early poems, first published in 1903 and revised in 1937, also includes an essay that relates them to the themes in her fiction.
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April Twilights (1903) Poems by Willa Cather ( 1976) |
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April Twilights And More Plus Poems By Emerson by Willa Cather ( 1997) |
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Ardessa by Willa Cather ( 2004) |
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The Autobiography of S.S. McClure by Willa Cather ( 1997)
S. S. McClure was one of America's greatest editors and publishers in the lively era of muckraking reform. He is remembered for McClure's Magazine, which early in the twentieth century published the works of famous authors and social reformers. He was also the mentor of young Willa Cather. After leaving her position at McClure's in 1912, Cather ghosted this graceful portrait of her former boss. Cather's developing style is clear throughout The Autobiography of S. S. McClure. She goes far inside her subject to find his voice and catch the rhythms of his exciting life: his immigration from Ireland to America, his Horatio Alger-like rise from poverty and struggle to success. Cather shows the risks he took in forming the first newspaper syndicate in the United States, which gave him access to such literary masters as Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson. His extensive contacts were advantageous later in establishing McClure's, the medium for muckrakers like Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens. These famous figures, and many others, enter into The Autobiography of S. S. McClure, which was originally published in 1914, just as Cather was launching her own illustrious career as a novelist.
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The Bohemian Girl Stories by Willa Cather ( 2009) |
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The Bohemian Girl (Illustrated Edition) by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Classic American Short Stories by Conrad Aiken, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robert Penn Warren, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather ( 2001) |
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Classic Women's Literature by Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Jane Austen ( 2002)
Contains selections from Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, and Willa Cather.
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Collected Stories by Willa Cather ( 1992)
In these fictions, Cather displays her vast moral vision, her unerring sense of place, and her ability to find the one detail or episode that makes a closed life open wide in a single exhilarating moment.
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A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Coming, Aphrodite! And Other Stories by Willa Cather ( 1999)
After moving to Red Cloud, Nebraska, Willa Cather quickly embraced the mythology of the prairie states. Many of the stories in Coming, Aphrodite! are inspired by the townsfolk, rumors, and history she first encountered in her new home. "Peter" is based on the suicide of a bohemian farmhand named Frank Sadelek, a figure who haunted Cather's memory for many years; "The Sculptor's Funeral" portrays the disparity between an acclaimed artist and his "barbarian" neighbors; and "Old Mrs. Harris". a portrait of a woman who endured the hardships of farm life, can be read as a tribute to Cather's parents who followed their own version of the American dream. The stories "The Diamond Mine" and "Scandal" highlight Cather's views of the turn-of-the-century woman and are still admired for their insights on gender and modernity.
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Una Dama Extraviada by Willa Cather ( 2002) |
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Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather ( 2004) |
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Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather ( 2009) |
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Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather ( 2006)
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 stories, the novel is also, because of its bold and experimental use of allegory and symbolism, a prime example of modernism at its height.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather ( 1990)
Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
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A Death in the Desert by Willa Cather ( 2005) |
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A Death in the Desert and the Sculptor's Funeral by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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The Diamond Mine by Willa Cather ( 2004) |
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Die Frau, Die Sich Verlor by Willa Cather ( 2003) |
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Die Frau, Die Sich Verlor by Willa Cather ( 2000) |
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Early Novels and Stories The Troll Garden, O Pioneers! the Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours by Willa Cather ( 1987)
THE TROLL GARDEN contains classic early stories, many set against the harsh but spectacular American prairie, and rich with autobiographical elements from the Nebraska of Cather's childhood. O PIONEERS is the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who takes over the management of the family farm upon her father's death, and of her forbidden love for a neighbor, Carl Lindstrom. THE SONG OF THE LARK is based on the career of Metropolitan Opera star Olive Femstad and traces the life of a singer from a rural town who goes to Chicago to study music and rises to the top of her profession. MY ANTONIA, which chronicles the relationship between two Nebraska children, Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, as they grow to maturity, is considered Cather's masterpiece. ONE OF OURS, a novel about a farm boy who comes into his own on the battlefields of France in World War I, where he dies heroically, won the Pulitzer Price in 1922.
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Early Short Stories by Willa Cather ( 1991) |
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Early Short Stories By Willa Cather by Willa Cather ( 2004) |
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Early Stories of Willa Cather by Willa Cather, Mildred R. Bennett ( 1983)
This collection includes stories from THE TROLL GARDEN, Cather's first collection, and other early work.
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El Dorado A Kansas Recessional by Willa Cather ( 2004) |
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Five Stories by Willa Cather ( 1989)
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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Friend of My Springtime by Willa Cather ( 1974) |
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A Gold Slipper by Willa Cather ( 2005) |
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Great Short Works of Willa Cather by Willa Cather ( 1993)
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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The House of Mirth/Pride and Prejudice/Death Comes for the Archbishop by Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Jane Austen ( 1993)
Published in 1905, Edith Wharton's first novel, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, navigates the murky waters of class-bound courtship and marriage in turn-of-the-century upper-crust Manhattan. Ironic, sharp, and tragic, the novel follows beautiful, orphaned Lily Bart in her search for a rich husband--the only route open to her if she is to survive in a ruthlessly materialistic world. Mercilessly, Wharton exposes the cruelty and indifference of a society in which such a woman has no role except to be exploited and looked down upon. Nor does she neglect to expose the vanity and delusions of poor Lily herself--qualities that undermine her considerable intelligence and charm. As always, Wharton is writing about a world she knows first-hand, and one in which she suffered her own trials. The complex and poignant tale of Lily Bart is one of her most popular and successful novels
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Jack-a-boy and El Dorado by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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The Joy of Nelly Deane, and Behind the Singer Tower (Illustrated Edition) by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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The Kingdom of Art Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 by Willa Cather ( 1967)
'The Kingdom of Art' attempts to give a summary of the first, elementary principles on which one writer based her art, and then to present a collection of critical statements--personal and occasional as well as theoretical--that seem to give a realistic view of Willa Cather as she was in the years 1893-1896.
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The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science by Willa Cather, Georgine Milmine ( 1993)
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. Cather's biography of Mary Baker Eddy remains the fullest portrait to date of the eccentric and spellbinding religious leader of the Christian Science Church.
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A Lost Lady by Willa Cather ( 1990)
A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier.
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Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather ( 1995)
Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world. Reprint.
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Meine Antonia by Willa Cather ( 2003) |
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My Antonia by Charles Jones, Willa Cather ( 1994)
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 servant. Throughout all her trials, Antonia's strength, humor, and goodness sustain her and her family--and Jim, for whom she is a lifelong inspiration and mentor. Willa Cather called this novel "the best thing I've done."
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My Antonia by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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My Antonia by Willa Cather, John J. Murphy ( 1994)
Splendid novel evokes the Nebraska prarie life and touchingly commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers.
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My Antonia ; The Troll Garden ; Selected Short Stories by Willa Cather ( 1994) |
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My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather ( 1990)
First published in 1926, this book is Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and oddly prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of happiness and the sanctity of the hearth.
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Neighbour Rosicky by Willa Cather ( 1986)
A gentle, hard-working farmer's zest for life touches all who know him.
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A Night at Greenway Court and Other Stories by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Not Under Forty by Willa Cather ( 1988)
Essays by the twentieth-century novelist record her impressions of works by Katherine Mansfield, Gustave Flaubert, and Sarah Orne Jewett.
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O Pioneers! by Willa Cather ( 1994)
Powerful novel of a young Swedish woman and her family's struggle to survive on the Nebraska prairie.
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O Pioneers! and Other Tales of the Prairie by Willa Cather ( 1999)
Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, 'To The Lighthouse' is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universality.
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Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather, Frederick M. Link, Kari Ronning, Mark Kamrath ( 1998)
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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The Old Beauty, and Others by Willa Cather ( 1976)
Nineteen stories deal with the hunger for beauty, the transformation of immigrants into Americans, and the need to assert the individual's independence.
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Old English Libraries by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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On the Divide, and Eric Hermannson's Soul by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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On the Gulls' Road, and the Enchanted Bluff (Illustrated Edition) by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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One of Ours by Willa Cather ( 1991)
Willa Cather explores the destiny of a boy whose yearnings impel him from Nebraska to a frontier bloodier and more distant than the one settled by his ancestors, from a farm to the trenches of World War I.
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Para Mayores De Cuarenta by Willa Cather ( 2002) |
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Paul's Case by Willa Cather ( 1980) |
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Paul's Case and Other Stories by Willa Cather ( 1996)
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. "Paul's Case" is about a sensitive young man who flees his dreary life in Pittsburgh for New York City but, unable to fulfill his vague promise or to find the "beauty" in life that he yearns for, he commits suicide. It was first published in THE TROLL GARDEN in 1903, and is often considered Cather's strongest story.
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Pioneers by Willa Cather ( 1975) |
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Pioneros/ O Pioneers! by Willa Cather ( 2006) |
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Plays of Real Life, and Training for the Ballet by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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The Professor's House by Willa Cather ( 1990)
A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.
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Readings on My Antonia by Willa Cather ( 2000)
Examines the style, structure, characters, and themes found in Cather's "My Antonia."
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Rites of Compassion by Willa Cather, Gustavo Flaubert ( 2007) |
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Sapphira Und Die Sklavin by Willa Cather ( 2000) |
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Sapphira Und Die Sklavin by Willa Cather ( 2003) |
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather ( 2009) |
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather ( 1975)
Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works.
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather ( 2009) |
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Scandal by Willa Cather ( 2005) |
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The Sculptor's Funeral by Willa Cather ( 2005) |
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Selected Works of Willa Cather by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Shadows On The Rock by Willa Cather, Frederick M. Link, David Stouck, John J. Murphy ( 2006) |
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Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather ( 1995)
With Cather wrote SHADOWS ON THE ROCK immediately after her other historical masterpiece, DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP. Like its predecessor, this novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to that new world even as they clung to the artifacts and manners of the one they left behind.
In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to twelve-year-old Cecile Auclair, rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas creche. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of the year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. And she gives us a spellbinding work of historical fiction in which great events occur first as rumors and then as legends--and in which even the most intimate domestic scenes are suffused with a sense of wonder. |
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Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather ( 2009) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 1999)
Thea Konberg is a Scandinavian-American singer who rises from a one-story Colorado town to the Metropolitan Opera House. Along the way she struggles with the tension between nurturing personal vitality and achieving artistic sublimity. The enervated artist seeks solace in an isolated desert canyon where she experiences the epiphany that will transform her vision and art. As is characteristic in Cather's work, the western landscape both represents the inner lives of characters and regenerates their tired imaginations.
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Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2006) |
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Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2006) |
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2007)
A republication of the author's most autobiographical novel tells the story of a young opera singer who, leaving behind the dull values of her small hometown, is determined to shape her own destiny, despite the social restrictions of her period. Reissue.
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Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( 2006) |
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Sparknotes My Antonia by Willa Cather ( 2003) |
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Stories by Willa Cather ( 1997) |
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The Sweated Drama, Roll Call on the Prairies, and The Education You Have to Fight For by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Three American Singers, and New Types of Acting by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Three Classics by American Women by Willa Cather, Edith Warton, Kate Choplin ( 1990) |
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Three Novels O Pioneers!, the Song of the Lark, and My Antonia by Willa Cather ( 1998)
Complete in one volume, here are three of the most adored works by early 20th-century writer Willa Cather. O PIONEERS! (1913) tells embodies American heroism in one pioneer woman. THE SONG OF THE LARK (1915) plots a great Wagnerian soprano's journey toward her destiny. MY ANTONIA (1918), is the story of a strong farm woman who still affirms her passion for the land after her father's suicide and desertion by her lover.
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The Toll Garden by Willa Cather ( 2000)
These classic early stories, many set against the harsh but spectacular American prairie, are rich with autobiographical elements from the Nebraska of Cather's childhood. THE TROLL GARDEN, 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 include "The Sculptor's Funeral" and the much-anthologized masterpiece, "Paul's Case."
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The Treasure of Far Island by Willa Cather ( 2004) |
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The Treasure of Far Island and Other Stories by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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The Troll Garden And Others by Willa Cather ( 2000) |
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The Troll Garden by Willa Cather ( 2000)
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 include "The Sculptor's Funeral" and the much-anthologized masterpiece, "Paul's Case."
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The Troll Garden And Selected Stories by Willa Cather ( 2004) |
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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather ( 2009) |
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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather ( 2002)
These classic early stories, many set against the harsh but spectacular American prairie, are rich with autobiographical elements from the Nebraska of Cather's childhood. THE TROLL GARDEN, 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 include "The Sculptor's Funeral" and the much-anthologized masterpiece, "Paul's Case."
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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Uncle Valentine and Other Stories Willa Cather's Uncollected Fiction 1915 1929 by Willa Cather ( 1986)
The seven stories in this volume were written during the ascending and perhaps most triumphant years of Willa Cather's career, the period during which she published nine books, including My Antonia, A Lost Lady, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.
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Vintage Cather by Willa Cather ( 2004)
A classic American writer in every sense, Willa Cather enjoyed both critical and commercial success in her long career, receiving the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours. Her beloved and enduring novels and stories have long been part of the canon of world literature, and the characters she created remain in the hearts and minds of her readers.
Vintage Cather includes sections of the novels Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers!, One of Ours, The Professor's House and My Antonia; and a generous selection of her stories, including “Coming Aphrodite!” Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions. |
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Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather ( 2005) |
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A Wagner Matinee and Paul's Case by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Willa Cather by Willa Cather, Marian Seldes ( 1996)
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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Willa Cather by Tony Napoli, Willa Cather ( 2004) |
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Willa Cather Later Novels A Lost Lady, the Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on the Rock, Lucy Gayheart, Sapphira and the by Willa Cather ( 1990)
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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Willa Cather in Europe Her Own Story of the First Journey by Willa Cather ( 1988)
Willa Cather was twenty-eight years old in the summer of 1902 when she saw England and France for the first time. Behind her stretched the Nebraska fields of her childhood and still ahead of her world as it belongs only to great writers. The 1902 journey, coming ten years before she made her literary mark with O Pioneers!, was unrepealable, special in its effects on her artistic development.
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Willa Cather in Person Interviews, Speeches, and Letters by Willa Cather ( 1990)
'Cather's public utterances were expressed with the same honesty and clarity that distinguish her immaculate novels and short stories. As happens when experiencing Cather's fiction, the reader of these words warms to her gentle passion and quiet eloquence. This collection is valuable for anyone interested in the art of writing, in the genesis of the writer, or in the shape of American culture in the first decades of this century.
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Willa Cather on Writing Critical Studies on Writing As an Art by Willa Cather ( 1988)
'(Willa Cather) is saying the most interesting, most profound things about the art of writing, and the life of art, that have been said in our time certainly, and she does it with immense grace and dignity.' - Katherine Anne Porter, New York Times.
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Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 by Willa Cather ( 1971)
Over forty short stories survey the initial years of discovery and artistic development of the beloved American author.
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Willa Cather's Collected Short Stories by Willa Cather ( 1970) |
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The World and the Parish Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 by William M. Curtin, Willa Cather ( 1970) |
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The World and the Parish Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 by Willa Cather ( 1970) |
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Youth And The Bright Medusa by Willa Cather ( 1997) |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather ( 2004) |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather ( 2005) |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather ( 2005) |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa A Collection of Short Stories by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather ( 2004)
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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Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather ( 2009) |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather ( 2008) |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather ( 2007) |
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