Willa Cather: Later Novels (Loa #49): A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Ar / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy Gayheart / Sapphira ... 2 (Library of America Willa Cather Edition) - Hardcover

Cather; Willa; O'Brien; Sharon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940450526 ISBN 13: 9780940450523

Publisher: Library Of America, 1990

Synopsis

The six works collected in this volume are at once intensely lyrical and formally perfect. Their fascination with Catholics in the American Southwest ( "The Professor's House, Death Come for the Archbishop" ) and in early Canada ( "Shadows on the Rock" ) reflect the older Cathers search for alternatives to the grasping civilization she felt was increasingly replacing the spirit for the early midwestern pioneers. This conflect is dramatized in "A Lost Lady. Sapphira and The Slave Girl, " a historical novel set in antebellum Virginia, is Cather's triumphant conclusion to her career as a novelist. This is the second volume in The Library of America's authoritative Will Cather edition, along with "Early Novels and Stories: the Troll Garden, Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours, " and "Stories, Poems, and Other Writings."

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About the Author:

Born in Virginia in 1873 and raised on a Nebraska ranch, Willa Cather is known for her beautifully evocative short stories and novels about the American West. Cather became the managing editor for McClure's Magazine in 1906 and lived for forty years in New York City with her companion Edith Lewis. In 1922 Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, the story of a Western boy in World War I. In 1933 she was awarded the Prix Femina Americaine "for distinguished literary accomplishments." She died in 1947.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Library Of America
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0940450526
• ISBN 13: 9780940450523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 976