Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3967993981
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, Willa Cather is one of the most famous voices of American Literary Regionalism. His favorite scenario is Maine and his characters are the pioneers whose work helped shape the identity of America. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories from this essential author of American literature: A Burglar's Christmas A Wagner Matinee On the Gull's Road Paul's Case The Enchanted Bluff The Namesake The Garden Lodge
Author : Mildred R. Bennett
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 1961-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803250130
The World of Willa Cather describes the people and places in Nebraska that figure prominently in many of Cather’s best novels and short stories. It offers material that can be found nowhere else. Here are Willa Cather of Red Cloud, her family and friends, and the things that formed her sensibilities.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2013-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482562903
Near Rattlesnake Creek, on the side of a little draw stood Canute's shanty. North, east, south, stretched the level Nebraska plain of long rust-red grass that undulated constantly in the wind. To the west the ground was broken and rough, and a narrow strip of timber wound along the turbid, muddy little stream that had scarcely ambition enough to crawl over its black bottom. If it had not been for the few stunted cottonwoods and elms that grew along its banks, Canute would have shot himself years ago. The Norwegians are a timber-loving people, and if there is even a turtle pond with a few plum bushes around it they seem irresistibly drawn toward it.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780880299138
Collection of ten stories including such works as "A Wagner Matinee, " "Paul's Case, " "The Bohemian Girl, " and "Neighbor Rosicky."
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307831698
The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death. These nineteen stories resonate with all the great themes that Cather staked out like tracts of fertile land: the plight of people hungry for beauty in a country that has no room for it; the mysterious arc of human lives; and the ways the American frontier transformed the strangers who came to it, turning them imperceptibly into Americans. 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.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307805247
First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherwordly fulfillment. My Mortal Enemy is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Paul is a schoolboy, described as tall and thin with strange eyes. He is facing the headmaster and several of his teachers, with whom he does not have a good relationship. All of them, in one way or another, find him difficult and disturbing to teach.
Author : Marilee Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2005-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826964
The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. Willa Cather's luminous prose is 'easy' to read yet surprisingly difficult to understand. The essays collected here are theoretically informed but accessibly written and cover the full range of Cather's career, including most of her twelve novels and several of her short stories. The essays situate Cather's work in a broad range of critical, cultural, and literary contexts, and the introduction explores current trends in Cather scholarship as well as the author's place in contemporary culture. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, the volume offers students and teachers a fresh and thorough sense of the author of My Ántonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 2013-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481967204
The "High Line Flyer," as this train was derisively called among railroad men, was jerking along through the hot afternoon over the monotonous country between Holdridge and Cheyenne. Besides the blond man and himself the only occupants of the car were two dusty, bedraggled-looking girls who had been to the Exposition at Chicago, and who were earnestly discussing the cost of their first trip out of Colorado. The four uncomfortable passengers were covered with a sediment of fine, yellow dust which clung to their hair and eyebrows like gold powder. It blew up in clouds from the bleak, lifeless country through which they passed, until they were one color with the sagebrush and sandhills.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803263260
Cather, the Nebraska-born novelist, describes her childhood, her career as a writer, and the influences on her work
