Lush descriptions of the rolling Nebraska grasslands interweave with the blossoming of a woman in the early days of the twentieth century, in an epic novel that chronicles America's past. ...

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Lush descriptions of the rolling Nebraska grasslands interweave with the blossoming of a woman in the early days of the twentieth century, in an epic novel that chronicles America's past. ...

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA ...

The first of Cathers renowned prairie novels, O Pioneers! established a new voice in American literature--turning the stories of ordinary Midwesterners and immigrants into authentic literary characters. ...

One of America's greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel--the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America's Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story ...

This is the story of Thea Kronborg, born in a small desert town in the American west. She forces her way through life, from Moonstone to Chicago, from Dresden to New York. She becomes a great opera singer, but she learns that to be a true artist she must ...

The first of Cathers renowned prairie novels, O Pioneers! established a new voice in American literature--turning the stories of ordinary Midwesterners and immigrants into authentic literary characters. ...

One of America’s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel—the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America’s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story o...

First published in 1926, this book is Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and oddly prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of happiness and the sanctity of the hearth. From the Trade Paperback edition. ...

In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives her father's suicide, poverty, and a failed romance, she triumphs with high spirits.Fr...

During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had both known long ago. More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood . . . His mind ...

"Superbly written, with that sensitivity to sunset and afterglow that has always been Miss Cather's." --The New York Times Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Like its predecessor, this novel of seventeenth-century Queb...

Claude has an intuitive faith in "something splendid" and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive ...

Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer, to the small town of Sweet Water and to the young narrator of her story, Niel Herbert. ...

In 1848 three Cardinals and a missionary decide the fate of a parish priest, Jean Marier Latour. He is to go to New Mexico to win for Catholicism the south west of America. He reforms and revivifies, after 40 years of service achieving a reconciliation between his faith and the peasants. ...

Sapphira presides over her Back Creek Valley property with disciplined resolution. In 1865, she is one of the few Virginians who still has slaves; something her husband finds increasingly difficult to countenance. Sapphira's horrific power is unleashed when she hears her husband linked to her maid. ...

A classic American writer in every sense, Willa Cather enjoyed both critical and commercial success in her long career, receiving the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours. Her beloved and enduring novels and stories have long been part of the canon of world literature, and the characters s...

À l'âge de 18 ans, Lucy Gayheart part étudier le piano à Chicago. Elle est belle, impressionnable, avec un tempérament ardent, ce qui attire l'attention de Clement Sebastian, un célèbre ténor plus âgé qu'elle, qui décide de la prendre comme accompagnatrice en remplacement de son pianiste habituel, e...

A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels. From the Trade Paperback edition. ...

Alexanders Bridge, Willa Cathers first novel, is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections. Published in 1912, just a year before O Pioneers! made Cathers name, it features high society on an international stage rather than the immigrant prairie characters she later became ...

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Not often are we given an opportunity to observe a great American writer arrive for the first time in the Old World from the New, there to record first impressions spontaneously, as they came, subject to no second thoughts, no later, leveling revision, George N. Kates writes in his Introduction to W...

A ruined beauty whose dignity has suffered a lifetime of loss and disenchantment. A Czech immigrant who finds a paradoxical contentment on the harsh expanse of the Nebraska prairie. A solitary young painter spying raptly and guiltily on his exquisite neighbor. These are some of the lives that Wi...