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Willa Cather
The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather’s strongest heroine at its heart.
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The second novel in Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life. ‘Lingers long in the memory’ Joyce Carol Oates Thea…
Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather’s best-known novel, a narrative whose spare beauty achieves epic–and even mythic–qualities as it recounts a life lived simply in the silence of…
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Hermoine Lee
A masterly biography of one of America’s most important 20th-century writers, written by Hermione Lee
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A spirited celebration of the immigrants who have shaped the United States,O Pioneers!is a masterpiece by a Pulitzer Prizewinning author.
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In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American…
Mildred R. Bennett
Describes the people and places in Nebraska that figure prominently in many of Cather’s best novels and short stories. This book presents a study of Red Cloud and the cultural…
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Professor St. Peter is not truly old, but he is starting to feel old. He and his wife have moved into an elegant new house, and he struggles to leave…
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Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic is a dream like mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean…
"A Lost Lady" by Willa Cather is a poignant novel that explores themes of love, loss, and societal change in early 20th-century America. Set against the backdrop of the American…
A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest
This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather…
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather is a novel set in the American Southwest in the mid-19th century. It follows the journey of Father Jean Marie Latour and…
Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspruenglich vor Jahrzehnten unter dem Titel "My Antonia". Es wurde jetzt von Writat fuer seine franzoesischsprachigen Leser in die franzoesische Sprache uebersetzt. Bei Writat liegt uns…
The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have…
Set in 17th-century Quebec, Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock vividly portrays the lives of French colonists through the eyes of young Cecile Auclair. As she navigates the challenges of…
Willa Cather’s masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage…
The novels O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My ntonia made Willa Cather's reputation and, though published separately, are nowstudied together as Willa Cather's Great Plains Trilogy. These…
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Willa Cather, an American author, is the author of the book "The Professor's House. After many years of writing, the book finally saw publication in 1925. Cather first penned the…
The Professor's House, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So that this book is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts…
The Song of the Lark is a celebration of artistic ambition and the pursuit of excellence, while also acknowledging the costs that often accompany such a path. The novel reflects…
Susie Thomas
A feminist study of one of America’s most distinguished modern novelists, focusing on the influence of European culture on her work. The author draws extensively on Cather’s unpublished letters and…
Provides a fresh, general overview of Willa Cather’s life and work, exploring why and how she is one of America’s most treasured and expansive writers.
Philip L. Gerber
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
Ann T Keene
This collection of essays investigates the various connections between Willa Cather’s fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices.
Mildred Rhoads Bennett
Originally published: New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1951.
A towering work of twentieth-century American literature, Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop tells the story of the French Catholic priest Jean Marie Latour, the first bishop of the…
Jonathan Goldberg
With a focus on Willa Cather’s artistic principle of the thing not named, this book illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction…
A collection of short stories drawn from every period of Willa Cather’s life. The selection ranges from vivid sketches to novellas, telling of the bitter lives of Nebraskan immigrants, the…
Greg Clinton
A compelling dive into the life and times of Willa Cather, a fascinating woman who lived during the great migration across western America and whose works influenced a region.
Linda De Roche
Written especially for students, this critical introduction offers criticism of Cather’s most widely read novels. A full chapter examines each work, with discussions of character development, thematic concerns, plot, critical…
Willa Cather was devoted to making art in the face of violence. Here, she emerges as a resource for survival in an age of terror, an artist who encourages her…
Laura Winters
This study examines the ways in which Willa Cather handles landscape and exile in her fiction. Cather’s characters are intricately connected to the places they inhibit, and they are often…
Edward Alan Bloom,Professor of English Lillian D Bloom
John N. Swift
The American Southwest was arguably as formative a landscape for Willa Cather’s aesthetic vision as was her beloved Nebraska. Both landscapes elicited in her a sense of raw incompleteness. This…
Richard Giannone
Examining the complex thematic and structural forms that music acquires in Cather’s narratives, this book uses this musical approach as a way of seeing into the author’s artistic sensibility, the…
Focuses on how the landscape of the American Southwest served the author creatively and the ways it shaped her research and productivity.
James Woodress
From 1896 to 1906 Willa Cather lived in Pittsburgh and Washington, D C, working as a magazine editor, reporter, literary and dramatic critic, and teacher before going on to New…
Joan Acocella
Shows how Cather’s work has been distorted by critics on the left and the right.
An infamous clause in the author’s will, forbidding publication of her letters and other papers, has long caused consternation among her scholars. For her, a complex and private person who…
Kelsey Squire (Author)
A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.
