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A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Marian Forrester brings delight to her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; to the small town of Sweet Water where they live; and to Niel Herbert, the young narrator of her story, who falls in love with her as a boy and later becomes her confidant. He witnesses this vibrant woman in all her contradicto ...Show more
April Twilights and Other Poems by Willa Cather; Everyman Publishers Staff
Category: Poetry & Plays
"One of the foremost American novelists of the early twentieth century, Willa Cather (1873-1947) was born in Virginia but grew up in Nebraska. Before she wrote 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 ant ...Show more
April Twilights and Other Poems by Willa Cather
Category: Fiction
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 i ...Show more
Classic Westerns (Leatherbound Classics) by Owen Wister, Willa Cather, Zane Grey, Max Brand
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
Discover six classic novels as you follow the footsteps of the trailblazers who settled the American West. As the American West opened up to settlers after the Civil War, people were eager for tales of great adventures, endless possibilities, and the pioneering spirit. Classic Westerns is a collecti ...Show more
Death Comes For the Archbishop by Cather Willa
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: VMC
In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows - gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly reb ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Category: Classic | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
For the 150th anniversary of Willa Cather's birth, and for the first time in Penguin Classics, her quietly beautiful novel of one man's life as he encounters the harsh landscape of the New Mexico desert and the people who inhabit it, with an introduction by National Book Award finalist Kali Fajardo-Anst ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Two French priests, friends since childhood, are sent to the newly created diocese of New Mexico. Life there is hard and frequently dangerous. Journeys between parishes are beset by the perils of bandits and storms. The people do not always want to hear the priests' message. But through their many years ...Show more
Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Category: Classic Fiction
Two priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexico to reinvigorate Catholicism among the locals, knowing little of the challenges that await them. They face a journey characterised by drudgery, danger and a vast, unending, often barren landscape. Over almost four decades they encounter a rich variety of ...Show more
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Category: Fiction
An enduring literary masterpiece first published in 1918, this hauntingly eloquent classic is an inspiring reminder of the rich past we have inherited. Willa Cather's lustrous prose, infused with a passion for the land, summons forth the hardscrabble days of the immigrant pioneer woman on the Nebraska p ...Show more
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had both known long ago. More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood ...His mind was ful ...Show more