A Lost Lady - Softcover

Cather, Willa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1536839108 ISBN 13: 9781536839104

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

In an atmosphere as individual and full of color as that of the old manor-houses in Russian novels, Miss Cather unfolds this romance of the old west in her book, “A Lost Lady;” not the west of the pioneer this time, but of the railroad aristocracy that grew up when the great transcontinental lines were being built across the plains, in her new book to be published this month by Alfred A. Knopf. A whole epoch lives again in the little group of people so wonderfully pictured here; in this story of an incorruptable man and the beautiful woman who was his wife, and of the house in which their moving drama took place. In every page there is a melancholy beauty, a thrilling pathos, it underlies the easy brilliance of the writting, the vivacity with which Miss Cather gives us all the idiosyncracies of that lavish, generous, careless era. Through the whole story one figure stands out with irresistible fascination-the figure of Marian Forrester, full of feminine mystery and charm, inscrutable in her weakness and her reckless courage. She is one of Miss Cather´s greatest triumps.

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About the Author:

Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. She was born on her maternal grandmother's farm in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. The Cathers moved to Nebraska in 1883, when Willa was nine years old. In 1896, she moved to Pittsburgh after being hired to write for the Home Monthly. During her first year in Pittsburgh, she wrote a number of short stories, including "Tommy, the Unsentimental", about a Nebraskan girl with a boy's name, who looks like a boy and saves her father's bank business. In 1906 she moved to New York City after being offered a position on the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1536839108
• ISBN 13: 9781536839104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104