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Nebraska, die Prärie der Great Plains: Hier lebt das Mädchen Antonia, seit sie mit ihrer Familie aus Böhmen in die USA eingewandert ist. Die mühevolle Existenz als Siedler schmeckt nicht jedem, doch die zupackende Antonia liebt die Weite und Ursprünglichkeit der Landschaft und erschafft sich allen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz ihr ganz eigenes Stück neue Heimat. Davon erzählt in der Rückschau ihr Jugendfreund Jim Burden, der eines Tages loszog, sein ...

Die unentdeckten Erzählungen einer der großen Stilistinnen der amerikanischen Literatur Mit trügerisch einfachen Worten und dem klaren Rhythmus ihrer Sätze leuchtet Willa Cather das Innenleben ihrer Figuren ebenso aus, wie sie deren Umfeld zum Leben erweckt: die leere Weite Nebraskas, die urbanen Räume New Yorks, die mythischen Felslandschaften des amerikanischen Südwestens oder einer schroffen Atlantikinsel. In »Der verwunschene Fels« blickt...

American author Willa Cather wrote a book titled The Professor's House. The story begins with Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his wife when move to a new house. He becomes uneasy about the route of his life is taking. His two daughters' marriages resulted in their departure from the house and the addition of two new sons-in-law, causing a midlife crisis that leaves the Professor feeling as though he has nothing to look forward to and has lost ...

The first book written by American novelist Willa Cather is named Alexander's Bridge. Bartley Alexander is a well-known bridge builder and construction engineer going through a midlife crisis. After being married to Winifred, Bartley brings back his relationship with an old flame in London, Hilda Burgoyne. Bartley's sense of propriety and honor is wounded by the situation. While some of the chapters are interesting an amazing, others can creat...

Willa Cather published a collection of short stories called The Troll Garden. The stories share a common theme in that they feature characters who desire for the world of beauty and imagination but are continuously attacked by the obscene and vicious outer world. In the short tale "The Sculptor's Funeral, " the townspeople of a prairie village are shown in their reactions when a well-known sculptor's body is brought back to be buried there. To...

Young And The Bright Medusa, is a collection of short stories, written by Willa Cather between 1905 and 1920 in a number of magazines. The contrast and tension between artists, or anyone who in some way aspired to the "art life, " and the rest of society, was the central issue. Ms. Cather was undoubtedly a talented author, and practically every one of her stories contains a gem-like passage. The majority of the stories in this book are set in ...

One Of Ours is a book written by Willa Cather, who later received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. In One of Ours, Cather brings World War I to the heartland of Nebraska and sensitively guides the reader through the highs and lows experienced by a young man who is already enjoying what are perhaps his life's greatest triumphs. But, One of Ours is not a tale of battle. Instead, it's just another excellent examination of the most fundamental aspirations...

My Antonia is a pioneer and important book written by Willa Cather. The book describes a woman's difficult immigrant existence in the Midwest and her desire for a better life. The story of Jim Burden, an orphaned youngster from Virginia, and Antonia Shimerda, the eldest child of Bohemian immigrants, who were both sent as children to be pioneers in Nebraska at the end of the 19th century, is told in the book. The Bohemians (of the modern Czech ...

American novelist Willa Cather wrote a book titled The Song of the Lark in 1915. The book tells the story of a talented artist who was born in a small town in Colorado, where she finds and focuses on her singing voice. Her narrative is set against the backdrop of the developing American West, where she was born in a village near a train line, the rapidly expanding city of Chicago around the beginning of the 20th century, and the US audience fo...

New Mexico has passed into American hands, and two French missionary priests are sent to assume responsibility for the new diocese. Bishop Jean Marie Latour and Vicar Joseph Vaillant, friends from boyhood, arrive at a time when all travel is still by foot or on horseback and the region is undergoing great change. As they work to expand the Catholic church's influence and care for the residents, they come to understand the impact of European ex...

The novels O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia made Willa Cather's reputation and, though published separately, are now studied together as Willa Cather's Great Plains Trilogy. These three novels, set in Nebraska and Colorado, cemented Cather's reputation in the early 1920s as a writer who exalted the lives of ordinary people. Together, these novels portray the magnificent prairie landscape and the indomitable spirit of the men a...

In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out...

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Myra Driscoll had it all--dresses, jewels, a riding horse, and a Steinway piano--until she met and fell in love with Oswald Henshawe, a man her uncle, John Driscoll, hated. Despite the threat of disinheritance by Driscoll, Myra married Oswald. Nellie Birdseye narrates the poignant journey through a failing marriage and a woman's painful struggle with the marriage paradox: how to reconcile youth's romantic exuberance with growing disillusionmen...

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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-AnstineA Penguin Vitae EditionIn 1848, following the US's recent acquisition of the American Southwest from Mexico, the young bishop Father Jean Ma...

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-AnstineA Penguin Vitae EditionIn 1848, following the US's recent acquisition of the American Southwest from Mexico, the young bishop Father Jean Ma...

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My Mortal Enemy is the eighth novel by American author Willa Cather. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it co...

O Pioneers is a novel written by Willa Sibert Cather in 1903. In this book, Cather unfolds the story of Bergson, are Swedish-American immigrant in the farm country near the town of Hanover, Nebraska.Alexandra Bergson is the leading character of the story, she inherits the family farmland when her father dies. She devotes her life in making the farm an enterprise when other immigrant families are leaving the prairie.The story also revolves arou...