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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)

O Pioneers!

by Willa Cather

"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.

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.

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)

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.

My Antonia, Large-Print Edition

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 by Willa Cather

by Willa Cather

One of the best-loved classics of American fiction

Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison (Vintage)

Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison (Vintage)

by A. S. Byatt

In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park , Bronte's Villette , George Elliot's Daniel Deronda , Willa Cather's The Professor's House , Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose , and Toni Morrison's Beloved . The results are nothing less than an education in the... (more)

One of Ours (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)

One of Ours (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)

by Willa Cather

Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for... (more)

ALEXANDER'S BRIDGE

by Willa Cather, Tom Quirk

Alexander's Bridge is a novel written by popular American author Willa Cather. Originally published in 1912, and is the story of a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges, Bartley Alexander, who is going through a mid-life crisis. Bartley, married to wife Winifred, has an affair with a former lover, Hilda, in London. Alexander's Bridge is highly recommended for those who enjoy the writings of... (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?"

The Troll Garden: Short Stories

by James Leslie Woodress, Willa Cather

This collection of Willa Cather stories—her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career—is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists,... (more)

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Alexander's Bridge LT

by Willa Cather, Willa Cather

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Death Comes for the Archbishop By Willa Cather

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Obscure Destinies V179

by Willa Cather, Kari Ronning

The jacket of the first edition of Obscure Destinies announced “Three New Stories of the West,” heralding Willa Cather’s return to what many thought of as “her” territory—the Great Plains. These three stories, “Neighbour Rosicky,” “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “Two Friends,” reflected her return to the well of memory that had inspired the books that made her reputation. The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition presents for... (more)

My Antonia (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Willa Cather

My Ántonia, by Willa Cather , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars... (more)

Willa Cather: A Critical Biography

by Willa) Brown, Edward K & Edel, Leon Cather

1953 Alfred Knopf. Hardcover, 351 Pages.

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