Willa Cather: 172 books

La colección de cuentos The Troll Garden and Selected Stories fue el primer libro de ficción de Willa Cather y tan relevante hoy como en el momento de su publicación en 1905. Es curioso que ese duende, o troll, que aparece en el título original, no salte a nuestro encuentro en ninguna de las historias,...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

In Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, we meet Claude Wheeler, a young Nebraskan yearning to escape the life that has been preordained for him. Claude is dissatisfied with farming, alienated from his parents, distant from his wife, and searching for something to believe in. When the country...

La vita di campagna non è abbastanza per il giovane Claude Wheeler, così come le distese sconfinate del Nebraska, la fattoria dei genitori, i preti del Temple College. Ma gli affari di famiglia vanno bene e quando il padre decide di ampliare l’attività Claude è costretto ad abbandonare gli studi...

'Quite simply a masterpiece ... I am completely bowled over by it; by the power of its writing, by the vividness of its scene painting and by the stories it tells' A. N. Wilson 'Where there is great love there are always miracles' Two French priests have been sent to New Mexico to reawaken...

The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition...

Un anziano contadino che, dall'Est Europa, arriva ad avere una terra tutta sua negli Stati Uniti; una nonna sradicata dalla sua terra d'origine e costretta a preoccuparsi del futuro della figlia e della nipote; una coppia di amici il cui rapporto è logorato dalle diverse posizioni politiche. Tre...

100th Anniversary Edition “Miss Cather, indeed, here steps definitely into the small class of American novelists who are seriously to be reckoned with.”—H. L. Mencken “To reread Cather is to rediscover an arresting chapter in the national past.”—Los Angeles Times Feisty...

Not Under Forty is the last book published in Cather's lifetime (1873-1947). It is a collection of six essays that critique various writers and the craft of writing in general. Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created. It is...

'As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains...And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.' My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of...

The first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.

The characteristic themes of Cather’s mature work are already present in her debut novella, an evocation of a tragic love triangle.   Bartley Alexander, renowned engineer of bridges, is a man with a past who “looked as a tamer of rivers ought to look.” Discovered by his mentor “sowing wild...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...