Willa Cather
Willa Cather was probably born in Virginia in 1873, although her parents did not register the date, and it is probably incorrectly given on her tombstone. Because she is so famous for her Nebraska novels, many people assume she was born there, but Willa Cather was about nine years old when her family moved to a small Nebraska frontier town called Red Cloud that was populated by immigrant Swedes, Bohemians, Germans, Poles, Czechs, and Russians. The oldest of seven children, she was educated at home, studied Latin with a neighbor, and read the English classics in the evening. By the time she...
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Willa Cather In Europe
eBook | pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections - Theory; Travel - Europe - France
978-0-307-83146-0 (0-307-83146-9)
May 8, 2013 | $13.99
“Not often are we given an opportunity to observe a great American writer arrive for the first time in the Old World from the New, there to record first impressions spontaneously, as they came, subject to no second thoughts, no later, leveling revision,” George N. Kates writes in his Introduction to...
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections - Theory; Travel - Europe - France
978-0-307-83146-0 (0-307-83146-9)
May 8, 2013 | $13.99
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“Not often are we given an opportunity to observe a great American writer arrive for the first time in the Old World from the New, there to record first impressions spontaneously, as they came, subject to no second thoughts, no later, leveling revision,” George N. Kates writes in his Introduction to...
Willa Cather On Writing
eBook | pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays; Literary Collections - Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections - Theory
978-0-307-83147-7 (0-307-83147-7)
May 1, 2013 | $13.99
"Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears inWilla Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and...
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays; Literary Collections - Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections - Theory
978-0-307-83147-7 (0-307-83147-7)
May 1, 2013 | $13.99
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"Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears inWilla Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and...
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
eBook | 752 pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Collections; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-95931-7 (0-307-95931-7)
April 16, 2013 | $21.99
eBook | 752 pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Collections; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-95931-7 (0-307-95931-7)
April 16, 2013 | $21.99
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This first publication of the letters of one of America’s most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant literary event. Willa Cather, wanting to be judged on her work alone, clearly forbade the publication of her letters in her will. But now, more than sixty-five years after her...
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The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Hardcover | 752 pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Collections; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-95930-0 (0-307-95930-9)
April 16, 2013 | $44.00
Hardcover | 752 pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Collections; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-95930-0 (0-307-95930-9)
April 16, 2013 | $44.00
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This first publication of the letters of one of America’s most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant literary event. Willa Cather, wanting to be judged on her work alone, clearly forbade the publication of her letters in her will. But now, more than sixty-five years after her...
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Not Under Forty
eBook | pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections - Feminist Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections - Women Authors
978-0-307-83140-8 (0-307-83140-X)
April 3, 2013 | $16.99
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...
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | pages | Knopf | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections - Feminist Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections - Women Authors
978-0-307-83140-8 (0-307-83140-X)
April 3, 2013 | $16.99
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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...
April Twilights and Other Poems
Hardcover | 240 pages | Everyman's Library | Poetry - Single Author - American; Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections - Letters
978-0-307-96146-4 (0-307-96146-X)
March 26, 2013 | $16.95
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded...
Written by Willa Cather
Hardcover | 240 pages | Everyman's Library | Poetry - Single Author - American; Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections - Letters
978-0-307-96146-4 (0-307-96146-X)
March 26, 2013 | $16.95
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Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded...
Collected Stories
eBook | 512 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-83169-9 (0-307-83169-8)
January 23, 2013 | $11.99
A ruined beauty whose dignity has suffered a lifetime of loss and disenchantment. A Czech immigrant who finds a paradoxical contentment on the harsh expanse of the Nebraska prairie. A solitary young painter spying raptly and guiltily on his exquisite neighbor. These are some of the lives that Willa Cather renders...
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | 512 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-83169-9 (0-307-83169-8)
January 23, 2013 | $11.99
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A ruined beauty whose dignity has suffered a lifetime of loss and disenchantment. A Czech immigrant who finds a paradoxical contentment on the harsh expanse of the Nebraska prairie. A solitary young painter spying raptly and guiltily on his exquisite neighbor. These are some of the lives that Willa Cather renders...
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Alexander's Bridge
eBook | 144 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-83196-5 (0-307-83196-5)
January 16, 2013 | $7.99
Alexander’s Bridge, Willa Cather’s first novel, is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections. Published in 1912, just a year before O Pioneers! made Cather’s name, it features high society on an international stage rather than the immigrant prairie characters she later became known for. The successful and...
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | 144 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-83196-5 (0-307-83196-5)
January 16, 2013 | $7.99
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Alexander’s Bridge, Willa Cather’s first novel, is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections. Published in 1912, just a year before O Pioneers! made Cather’s name, it features high society on an international stage rather than the immigrant prairie characters she later became known for. The successful and...
O Pioneers!
Hardcover | 216 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-70091-9 (0-307-70091-7)
September 6, 2011 | $27.95
The novel that first made Willa Cather famous—a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman—in a handsome hardcover volume.
No other work of fiction so vividly evokes the harsh beauty and epic sweep of the Nebraska prairies that Cather knew and loved. The heroine...
Hardcover | 216 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-70091-9 (0-307-70091-7)
September 6, 2011 | $27.95
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The novel that first made Willa Cather famous—a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman—in a handsome hardcover volume.
No other work of fiction so vividly evokes the harsh beauty and epic sweep of the Nebraska prairies that Cather knew and loved. The heroine...
Death Comes for the Archbishop
eBook | 304 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80522-5 (0-307-80522-0)
August 24, 2011 | $11.99
Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | 304 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80522-5 (0-307-80522-0)
August 24, 2011 | $11.99
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Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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A Lost Lady
eBook | 160 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80521-8 (0-307-80521-2)
August 24, 2011 | $9.99
A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | 160 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80521-8 (0-307-80521-2)
August 24, 2011 | $9.99
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A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Lucy Gayheart
eBook | 208 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80523-2 (0-307-80523-9)
August 24, 2011 | $13.99
"Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts—that and nothing more." In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop performs a series...
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | 208 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80523-2 (0-307-80523-9)
August 24, 2011 | $13.99
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"Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts—that and nothing more." In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop performs a series...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
My Mortal Enemy
eBook | 112 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80524-9 (0-307-80524-7)
August 24, 2011 | $9.99
First published in 1926, this book is Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and oddly prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of happiness and the sanctity of the hearth.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | 112 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80524-9 (0-307-80524-7)
August 24, 2011 | $9.99
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First published in 1926, this book is Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and oddly prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of happiness and the sanctity of the hearth.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Professor's House
eBook | 272 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80527-0 (0-307-80527-1)
August 24, 2011 | $12.99
A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | 272 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80527-0 (0-307-80527-1)
August 24, 2011 | $12.99
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A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
eBook | 320 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80525-6 (0-307-80525-5)
August 24, 2011 | $11.99
Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Written by Willa Cather
eBook | 320 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-80525-6 (0-307-80525-5)
August 24, 2011 | $11.99
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Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Also available as a
trade paperback.
