Willa Cather

Una de las novelas más importantes de Willa Cather, desde hace unos años descatalogada, ahora en edición de bolsillo. Una novela preciosa que nos descubre la América profunda de los colonos. Interesante por la forma en que esta escrita, por quien la escribio (una mujer avanzada a su tiempo que no oculto su condicion sexual) y por lo que explica, una parte de la historia de los colonos norteamericanos.

I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska. I travelled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the hands on my fathers old farm under the Blue Ridge, who was now going West to work for my grandfather. Jakes experience of the world was not much wider than mine. He had never been in a railway train until the morning when we set out together to try our fortunes in a new world.

El padre de Lucy Gayheart, relojero y director de la banda municipal del pueblo de Haverford, ha costeado con ilusión y esfuerzo la educación musical de su hija en Chicago. Esta es una joven sensible, impulsiva y brillante. Un dia le surge la oportunidad de acompañar al famoso baritono Clement Sebastian, un hombre mucho mayor que ella a quien el contacto con la juventud parece traer una nueva y melancolica primavera. La diferencia de edad y posicion, y sobre todo de experiencia, no impide a Lucy aferrarse a una "promesa luminosa" que esta convencida de que acabara haciendose realidad& x02026; aunque para ello tenga que renunciar a Harry Gordon, el "gran hombre del Oeste" que ha sido su pretendiente desde la infancia.

Willa Cather based "Death Comes for the Archbishop" on William Howletts account of the life of Father Macheboeuf, vicar to Archbishop Lamy of New Mexico. Set in the mid-nineteenth century, the book follows the fortunes of Father Latour and his assistant and friend, Father Vaillant, as they organize the disjointed religious structure of the southwestern missions. The two face a formidable task, made more difficult by powerful priests long in control of the area who are loathe to abandon the corruption into which they have fallen. Working together diligently and with an unshakable faith, Father Latour and Father Vaillant eventually reclaim the region and bring its far-flung communities under the guidance of a single diocese.First published in 1927, "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is the book that Cather believed to be her finest work. Like "The Professors House," it is a novel that explores the life of a man and draws on the American Southwest for its setting. Here the similarity ends, however, as the tone of the two books is quite different.Unlike the earlier books, this one celebrates the life choices of its central characters, finding in the lives of Father Joseph Vaillant and Father Jean Marie Latour a simple dignity and extraordinary fulfillment.

First published in 1912, "Alexanders Bridge" is a novel by American writer Willa Cather and the authors first. Although "Alexanders Bridge" was published a century ago, the book is still relevant today and has some important lessons on ways to live our life in harmony."Alexanders Bridge" tells the story of Bartley Alexander, an engineer who designs bridges. A man of action, strong and handsome, Bartley has moved from his humble western beginnings to attain success and respect among eastern elites. His comfortable life and place in Bostons high society are thanks in no small part to his loving wife, Winifred, who comes from a well-to-do family. But Bartleys life is upended on a business trip to London. There he encounters Hilda, an old college flame who is now an actress. Already grappling with the feeling that his routinized life, successful though it may be, has left him empty, running into Hilda ignites a passionate affair. The love triangle that results and Bartleys internal struggle as he leads a double life provide much of the drama that unfolds. Bartley finds himself helpless in his attempts to end his relationship with Hilda, ultimately leading to tragedy.

Originally published in 1923, "A Lost Lady" is Willa Cathers elegiac portrait of the spirit of an earlier age. In her depiction of Marian Forrester, the much-admired figurehead of culture and society in the town of Sweet Water, Cather evokes a quality of life that began, for her, to vanish sometime around the beginning of the twentieth century. To Cather, much of what was wrong with twentieth century life was the absence of those qualities that Mrs. Forrester embodies: charm, warmth, and a certain graciousness of manner that has no place in the harsher climate of an industrialised society.Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for "life on any terms," and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her. This, Willa Cathers most perfect novel, is not only a portrait of a troubling beauty, but also a haunting evocation of a noble age slipping irrevocably into the past.

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 titulo original, no salte a nuestro encuentro en ninguna de las historias, todas ligadas a personajes que aman las artes y cuyas vidas se relacionan con sus diferentes expresiones, por lo que quiza solo se haga visible ante nuestros ojos considerando su sentido metaforico: el duende, el genio o la inspiracion que se revela como un fantasma tras la invocacion de cualquier forma de arte.

A 100th anniversary edition of Cathers most-read, most-loved novel_with a new introduction by Jane Smiley. In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spiri

Claude Wheeler craves excitement, far more than he can ever find as a farmers son. He encounters more at university, where the modern world beyond farm life offers new thrills and challenges, only to lose them as the farm calls him back. World War I offers him even more . . . but he may crave excitement more than life itself can allow. Wanting it as much as he does cant protect him from the consequences of personal bravado in an age of killing machines.

My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Antonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions on both children, affecting them for life. This novel is considered Cathers first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting.

When Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his wife move into a new home, he begins to feel dissatisfied with the new turn in life. He continues his scientific work in his dusty laboratory in an old house, trying to return to his old life. Two of his daughters get married and leave their home, two sons-in-law appear in the family. This provokes a midlife crisis, making the professor feel like he has lost his will to live due to a lack of purpose.

The story of a boy who grew up in a wealthy farming family, not avoiding hardships and always ready to lend a helping hand. The story of a love that didnt happen, but rather happened, between the main character or Antonia, turns out to be more than growing up, more than just about the history of one country. This is a story about a change of mind.

A collection of poignant stories about art and artists, about those who love them and those who dont. Every story in this book is about artists and disappointment. Three stories are Western, two of them set in Kansas and Wyoming, and the third is about a woman from Nebraska traveling through Boston.

The stories in this collection mostly take place in New York and Boston, and are all about artistswriters, musicians, sculptorsand their relationship to society. There are stories of brilliance, inspiration and expectations. All of them are wonderful.

Lucy Gayheart is well known in her small Nebraska town for her great looks, energy and piano playing. Everyone assumes that she will marry the son of banker Harry Gordon, including Harry, but at 18 she goes to Chicago to study piano and ends up making money accompanying the famous international vocalist when he spends time in Chicago. Her life, other peoples lives and peoples expectations changed forever.

An American classic about Swedish immigrants in the Midwest. There lived in Nebraska a clever and beautiful woman named Alexandra Bergson, and she had three brothers. The older ones were greedy self-satisfied people, the younger one was a spoiled egoist, and she devoted her whole life to making sure they had a good life. I thought only about crops, livestock and land plots, but I didnt think about myself for the time being

Bartley Alexander is a civil engineer and world famous bridge builder. He is going through a midlife crisis. While married to Winifred, Bartley rekindles a relationship with Hilda Burgoyne from London. This connection torments the moral principles of Bartley.

She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun...' A rapturous work of savage beauty, Willa Cather's 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie is also the story of what it means to be American. It is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920. Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden.This collection contains the following stories:"Coming, Aphrodite!" a.k.a. "Coming, Eden Bower!""The Diamond Mine""A Gold Slipper""Scandal""Pauls Case""A Wagner Matinee""The Sculptors Funeral""A Death in the Desert"