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One of Ours is Willa Cathers Pulitzer prize-winning story about life on the American frontier. The country teeters on the brink of World War I and Claude Wheeler finds himself a conflicted man. The son of a successful farmer, Wheeler is unhappy, despite a comfortable life and guaranteed fortune. A pious mother, demanding father and loveless marriage push the young idealist to a new and bloodier frontier. As America enters the war, Claude Wheeler is about to find what hes been searching for all his life. Willa Cathers acclaimed novel is an examination of the changing American frontier and the making of a soldier.

The story of Marian Forrester, a wife and then a widow in a small Nebraska town, and Niel Herbert, the narrator, who has been devoted to her since he was a child, is one of Cather''s lesser-known novels, but considered by many to be one of her best. Marian is a refined and civilizing presence in the rough town to which her marriage to a rich man takes her, but after a devastating love affair, followed by her husband''s death and the loss of her money, she makes changes in her life that, at first, Niel fails to understand. It''s only years later that he is able to see that her life was, in fact, a work of art with its own logic--that the woman he revered but considered "lost" was in fact the mistress of her fate, and a woman he can continue to admire.

The Troll Garden is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1905.This collection contains the following seven stories:"Flavia and Her Artists""The Sculptors Funeral""A Death in the Desert""The Garden Lodge""The Marriage of Phaedra""A Wagner Matinee""Pauls Case"

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.

"Not Under Forty" by Willa Cather. Published by e-artnow. e-artnow publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgottenor yet undiscovered gemsof world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each e-artnow edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

La historia se inicia en 1697 en Quebec, y narra un año de las vidas de Cécile Auclair y su padre Euclide Auclair, colonos franceses instalados en Canadá, deteniéndose en la vida social del Quebec primigenio, pendiente siempre de la llegada de los barcos y la salida de mercancias para Europa. Con una prosa sencilla Willa Cather logra evocar con sensibilidad y precisas descripciones el ambiente entre los pioneros que traian sus vidas y sus ilusiones al nuevo mundo. Cather recupera en esta novela el espiritu originario de los pioneros norteamericanos, uno de los temas recurrentes en su obra, su mezcla de ingenuidad y ambicion, su sentido de la comunidad y al mismo tiempo sus disputas. El espiritu de los grandes pensadores norteamericanos como David Thoreau, R.. W. Emerson o W. Whitman, impregna las paginas de "Sombras sobre la roca". Cather integra habilmente en la novela hechos pasados como recuerdos, leyendas, o historia politica o religiosa. Construyendo la narracion a base de pequeños detalles, como la taza de Cecile, o el castor de Jaques, que dan vida a la incipiente Quebec de apenas dos mil vecinos.

In this novel, Jim Burden tells the story of his beloved childhood friend Antonia, the immigrant girl and woman whose struggle and splendour represent the very source of life itself. The vitality of the pioneer West is captured in the portrait of a pioneer woman.

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 and hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past. At last, in a desert canyon in Arizona, Thea has a revelation that will allow her to attain a new state of spirituality and become a truly great artist. 'Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic' Helen Dunmore 'The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work' A. S. Byatt 'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates