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Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best-known novel, a narrative whose spare beauty achieves epic - and even mythic - qualities as it recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. This concise supplement to Willa Silbert Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.
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'Quite simply a masterpiece ... I am completely bowled over by it ... This will be a book which I go on rereading' A. N. Wilson, TELEGRAPH *A powerful piece of writing, rich with the essence of a poor, yet beautiful country and a simple yet dignified 'A powerful piece of writing, rich with the essence of a poor but beautiful country and a simple yet dignified people' Sunday Times 'Quite simply a masterpiece ... I am completely bowled over by it; by the power of its writing, by the vividness of its secne painting and by the stories it tells ... This will be a book which I go on rereading' A. N. Wilson, Telegraph 'A tremendous, ranging story, economical and distilled as poetry ... A lovely book' Jane Gardam
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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.
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