Willa Cather: 172 books

Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather. First published in 1912, it was re-released with an author's preface in 1922. It also ran as a serial in McClure's, giving Cather some free time from her work for that magazine. Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and...

`For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious.' Willa Cather's second novel, O Pioneers! (1913) tells the story of Alexandra Bergson and her determination...

These seven stories by Willa Cather, edited by Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman for Rushwater Press, are published here under the title Tales of Town & Country. All but one first appeared in periodicals. “A Death in the Desert” originally appeared in Scribner’s Magazine,...

Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders...

In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. Antonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian...

In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. But as her path to the world stage leads her ever...

The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. It is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, following O Pioneers! (1913) and preceding My Ántonia (1918). The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small...

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...

Una notte, la giovane Myra Driscoll scappa di casa portando con sé solamente un manicotto e un portamonete. A passo svelto e testa alta, se ne va per sempre. Raggiunge Oswald Henshawe, giovane spiantato di cui è innamorata, e lo sposa in gran segreto, rinunciando così alla cospicua eredità che...

El caso de Paul fue publicado por primera vez en 1905 dentro del primer libro de cuentos de Willa Cather, El jardín de los Troll, que lanzó su carrera. El relato, considerado uno de los mejores de la literatura norteamericana de todos los tiempos, explora las contradicciones de muchos jóvenes con...

The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest heroine at its heart Jim and Ántonia meets as children in the wide open plains of Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century. Jim leaves for college and a career in the east,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Published in 1913, O Pioneers! is the first novel in Cather’s Great Plains trilogy and follows the life of its young heroine, Alexandra Bergson, as she fulfills her father’s dying wish to...

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...

This 1st volume of "100 Books You Must Read Before You Die" contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] Emma [Jane Austen] Father Goriot par [Honoré de Balzac] The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë]...