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Willa Cather
The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather’s strongest heroine at its heart.
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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 novels O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Antonia made Willa Cather's reputation and, though published separately, are now studied together as Willa Cather's Great Plains Trilogy…
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The second novel in Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life. ‘Lingers long in the memory’ Joyce Carol Oates Thea…
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Willa Cather’s masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage…
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Professor St. Peter is not truly old, but he is starting to feel old. He and his wife have moved into an elegant new house, and he struggles to leave…
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Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic is a dream like mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean…
When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful…
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A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest
This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather…
Philip L. Gerber
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
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Susie Thomas
A feminist study of one of America’s most distinguished modern novelists, focusing on the influence of European culture on her work. The author draws extensively on Cather’s unpublished letters and…
Ann T Keene
One January day, many years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was…
First published 1918, My Antonia is Cather's fourth novel and considered her finest work. The story is told by Jim Burden who recounts his life and memories surrounding Antonia, a…
Mildred R. Bennett
Describes the people and places in Nebraska that figure prominently in many of Cather’s best novels and short stories. This book presents a study of Red Cloud and the cultural…
A coming-of-age classic, set against the backdrop fo the 1890s American West. Thea travels beyond her small Colorado hometown to the major cities of the U.S. and on to Europe…
A towering work of twentieth-century American literature, Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop tells the story of the French Catholic priest Jean Marie Latour, the first bishop of the…
Jonathan Goldberg
With a focus on Willa Cather’s artistic principle of the thing not named, this book illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction…
A collection of short stories drawn from every period of Willa Cather’s life. The selection ranges from vivid sketches to novellas, telling of the bitter lives of Nebraskan immigrants, the…
Joan Acocella
Shows how Cather’s work has been distorted by critics on the left and the right.
John N. Swift
The American Southwest was arguably as formative a landscape for Willa Cather’s aesthetic vision as was her beloved Nebraska. Both landscapes elicited in her a sense of raw incompleteness. This…
This Companion offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. The essays collected here cover the full range of Cather’s career including most of her…
Linda De Roche
Written especially for students, this critical introduction offers criticism of Cather’s most widely read novels. A full chapter examines each work, with discussions of character development, thematic concerns, plot, critical…
Offers a broad sampling of the immediate reaction to the appearance of Cather’s volumes of poetry, fiction, and criticism. While most reviews are from the major national journals and newspapers…
Hermione Lee
Traces the life of the American novelist from her childhood in the newly settled prairies of Nebraska through her years as a journalist, editor, and teacher, and examines the relationship…
James Woodress
From 1896 to 1906 Willa Cather lived in Pittsburgh and Washington, D C, working as a magazine editor, reporter, literary and dramatic critic, and teacher before going on to New…
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Originally published in hardcover ed. by Alfred A. Knopf in 2013.
An infamous clause in the author’s will, forbidding publication of her letters and other papers, has long caused consternation among her scholars. For her, a complex and private person who…
Kelsey Squire (Author)
A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.
Marilee Lindemann
An enlightening unpacking of Cather’s writings, from her controversial love letters of the 1890s–in which queer is employed to denote sexual deviance–to her epic novels, short stories, and critical writings.
Amy Ehrlich
A chapter book biography of Willa Cather, an American novelist –
My Antonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her prairie trilogy of novels…
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in…
The most celebrated of Willa Cather’s novels of Nebraska frontier life, My Antonia chronicles a generation in the lives of settlers in one small community.
One of Ours tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native around the turn of the 20th century. Winner of the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
John March
This reader’s companion contains thousands of lively and informative entries on persons, places, and events, fictional and real, and on quotations, works of art, and other items to reveal meanings…
Daryl W. Palmer
From the girl in Red Cloud, who oversaw the construction of a miniature town in her backyard, to the New Woman on a bicycle, celebrating art and castigating political abuse…
Merrill Maguire Skaggs
Traces the intimate relationship between the texts published by Willa Cather and William Faulkner between 1922 and 1962. When those texts are juxtaposed and examined carefully, the two writers seem…
David Porter
Willa Cather’s fiction frequently plays out on the divide , the high prairie land of Nebraska, where the author herself lived as a child. This book suggests that Cather’s own…
