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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.

With Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather's published works made another jump in length: from poetry to short stories, and now to a short novel. In many ways, this short novel contained less of her characteristic insight-into-people-and-places than was displayed in the previously published collection of short stories: The Troll Garden. It was almost as if this was an exercise at extending the number of pages used, rather than a natural growth of feeling. At the same time, however, it is still the inner-workings and driving-force of life that command her attention, and thus mine. It is the story of Bartley Alexander, a renowned engineer and bridge builder, who happens to be one of those people who seems to be kissed by good fortune. His career is incredibly successful, he marries a rich girl (who he also happens to be in love with), and to top it all off, he gets to travel between Boston and London on a regular basis. What's not to love? His somewhat idyllic life begins to unravel, however, when he becomes reacquainted with a former flam....CONTINÚA

First published in 1923, "A Lost Lady" is one of Willa Cather's classic novels about life on the Great Plains. It harks back to Nebraska's early history and contrasts those days with an unsentimental portrait of the materialistic world that supplanted the frontier. In her subtle portrait of Marian Forrester, whose life unfolds in the midst of this disquieting transition, Cather created one of her most memorable and finely drawn characters. This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of "A Lost Lady" is edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association. The historical essay describes the origin, writing, and reception of the novel as well as motion pictures that were later based on it; and a selection of archival photographs illuminates the connection between the novel and the people and places from Cather's formative years in Nebraska. Explanatory notes identify locations, literary references, persons, events, and specialized terminology. The textual essays describe the production and subsequent revisions of the text.

Willa Cather's O PIONEERS!, first published in 1913, tells the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who successfully takes over the management of the family farm upon her father's death. The story encompasses Alexandra's difficult relationships with her brothers, Oscar and Lou, her love for a neighbor, Carl Lindstrom, and the tragic romance between her youngest brother, Emil, and a married woman. The setting is as important as the events of the story, however. Alexandra's near-obsessive love for the huge sky and vast plains of Nebraska is part of what fuels ...

Situada en una pequeña localidad de Nebraska a finales del siglo XIX, « Pioneros » relata una historia de inmigración y supervivencia cuya figura central es Alexandra, una valiente joven, que a la mu

" In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives her father's suicide, poverty, and a fa"

Tom Outland, killed in the Great War, seemed an embodiement of the American frontier spirit But he has left a troubling legacy, inspiring to his former professor Godfrey St Peter, but bringing betrayal and strife to the professor's two married daughters.

“Hacia 1832 -dice Willa Cather en el preámbulo- el mundo se partió en dos”: la Primera Guerra Mundial había marcado un antes y un después en la historia de la cultura occidental. Para los “rezagados” en esos años, quiso dirigir la autora los recuerdos, impresiones y ensayos de este libro. Una defensa a ultranza de la personalidad y de la experiencia, de la imbricación entre literatura y vida, caracteriza estas páginas breves, melancólicas e intensas, de un lirismo y una imaginación excepcionales.

Myra Driscoll renunció a la fortuna de su tío y a una comodidad de princesa para ser fiel a sus sentimientos y casarse con Oswald Henshawe. Pero la obra mostrará el haz y el envés de aquella valentía ideal. A través de la exquisita mirada de la joven Nellie asistimos a la rememoración de dos momentos clave para el retrato de Myra: la vida del matrimonio en Nueva York, llena de glamour y de amistades artísticas, y su final empobrecido en una ciudad junto al Pacífico.Willa Cather nació en Back Creek Valley, Virginia, en 1873. Se trata de una de las novelistas norteamericanas más importantes de la primera mitad del siglo XX, admirada, entre otros, por el exigente William Faulkner. Trabajó como periodista y editora, y conoció el mundo de la enseñanza. Entre sus obras más importantes se encuentran: «My Antonia» (1918) y «One of Ours» (Premio Pulitzer, 19922). Murió en Nueva York en 1947.