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"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." . . . "The land belongs to the future . . . that's the way it seems to me. . . . I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while." -- Willa Cather, O Pioneers! Willa Cather... (more)

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.

My Antonia

by Willa Cather

Willa Cather, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, considered My Ãntonia to be one of her best works, and critic H.L. Mencken claimed it was one of the best American novels ever written. Published in 1918, the novel compassionately and intimately traces the story of a Bohemian family as they settle on the Great Plains in Nebraska. This American classic is still lauded internationally by scholars and everyday... (more)

The Song of the Lark

by Willa Cather

Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape. Thea Kronborg, an aspiring singer, struggles to escape from the confines her small Colorado town to the world of possibility in the Metropolitan Opera House. In classic Cather style, The Song of the Lark is the beautiful, unforgettable... (more)

Youth and the Bright Medusa

by Willa Cather

"We must not look at Goblin men We must not buy their fruits; Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?"

Lucy Gayheart (Vintage Classics)

by Willa Cather

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.

The Professor's House (Virago Modern Classics)

The Professor's House (Virago Modern Classics)

by Willa Cather

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.

A Lost Lady (Vintage Classics)

by Willa Cather

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.

Shadows on the Rock / Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Shadows on the Rock / Sapphira and the Slave Girl

by Willa Cather

Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and women who struggled to adapt to the new world even as they clung to the one they left behind. Reprint.

SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL

by Willa Cather

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Alexander\\'s Bridge

by Willa Cather

Bartley Alexander, a construction engineer, is a middle-aged man torn between Winifred, his demanding American wife, and Hilda Burgoyne, his alluring British mistress. Alexander's relationship with Hilda erodes his sense of honor and eventually proves disastrous when a bridge he is constructing begins to collapse. Alexander's Bridge is an instructive, thought-provoking study of a man's growing awareness of his... (more)

One of Ours (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)

One of Ours (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)

by Willa Cather, Kari Ronning

Although the land on which the Nebraska farm boy Claude Wheeler lives is settled, he himself has inherited the pioneer spirit of adventure, the frontiersman's purpose, and the settler's sense of idealism. In One of Ours , Willa Cather explores the dissonance between Claude’s attitudes and his physical reality and studies how this conflict affects him. Drawing on her own family’s experience of the war through her... (more)

My Antonia

by Willa Cather

First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses... (more)

My Antonia (Girlebooks Classics)

by Willa Cather

First published 1918, My Antonia is Cather's fourth novel and considered her finest work. The story is told by Jim Burden who recounts his life and memories surrounding Antonia, a childhood friend. The novel is divided into five parts, some of which incorporate short stories Cather had written about her own life growing up in Nebraska.

The American Short Story -- A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar

A collection of short stories by American authors from Wahington Irving to Saul Bellow.

Paul's Case and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

Paul's Case and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Willa Cather

Shadows In The Rock

At the end of the seventeenth century, on that "grey rock in the Canadian wilderness" known as Quebec, Cecile Auclair and her father,the town's apothecary, live a life very different from the one they knew in Paris. With their small circle of friends and neighbors, they spend the long difficult winter with no word from home-news of the events they have left behind must wait until spring, when the annual boats from... (more)

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Neighbor Rosicky

by Willa Cather

My Antonia

by Willa Cather

First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses... (more)

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP.

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O Pioneers!

by Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

My Antonia

by Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

by Willa Cather

Youth and the Bright Medusa

by Willa Cather

Lucy Gayheart (Vintage Classics)

by Willa Cather

The Professor's House (Virago Modern Classics)

by Willa Cather

A Lost Lady (Vintage Classics)

by Willa Cather

Shadows on the Rock / Sapphira and the Slave Girl

by Willa Cather

SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL

by Willa Cather

Alexander\\'s Bridge

by Willa Cather

One of Ours (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)

by Willa Cather, Kari Ronning

My Antonia

by Willa Cather

My Antonia (Girlebooks Classics)

by Willa Cather

The American Short Story -- A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar

Paul's Case and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Willa Cather

Shadows In The Rock

Neighbor Rosicky

by Willa Cather

My Antonia

by Willa Cather

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP.