Willa Cather
1) One of ours
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 missionary work, and dissatisfied with...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1931.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"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, the 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
1,336 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first of three volumes presenting the writings of Willa Cather includes her early book of stories and first four novels. The troll garden: Cather's first short story collection, originally published in 1905, depicts characters who seek the realm of beauty and imagination, but are confronted by the vulgarity and brutality of American society. O pioneers!: In Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson leads...
Author
Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1925.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 715 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A first publication of the acclaimed writer's personal correspondences includes whimsical teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles with aging. -- Publishers Description.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1977, 1922.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 138 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of a successful yet impatient engineer who comes to know himself through his relations with two women: his wife, Winifred, and a young Irish actress named Hilda.
10) Not under forty
Author
Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1936.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 147 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For Willa Cather, "the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts." The whole legacy of Western civilization stood on the far side of World War I, and in the spiritually impoverished present she looked back to that. To that she directed readers of these essays, declaring that anyone under forty years old would not be interested in them. But she was wrong: since its first publication in 1936, Not Under Forty has appealed to readers of all ages who share...
11) A lost lady
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1923.
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Written from the perspective of a male narrator, Willa Cather's classic novel is an American version of "Madame Bovary". It is a portrait of a talented woman trapped in the conventions and economic restraints of a marriage. It is the story of a woman who defies expectations, and whose personal changes coincide with the transforming American Frontier. In this work, Willa Cather expressed her profoundly modern feminist views in the life of an ordinary...
17) My mortal enemy
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1926.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...