Willa Cather

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An American author of the Interwar period, Willa Cather achieved recognition for her nostalgic novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. Her novels are noted for their atmospheric and vivid portrayals of the landscape and the lives of settlers, immortalising Nebraska’s pioneer life. In 1923 Cather achieved international acclaim and financial security when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ‘One of Ours’ (1922), a novel set during World War I. This eBook presents Cather’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)

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Description

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Cather’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All 12 novels, with individual contents tables
* Features rare short stories appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Includes Cather’s rare poetry collection – available in no other collection
* Rare non-fiction works
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
* UPDATED with corrections and improved structure

CONTENTS:

The Prairie Trilogy

The Novels
Alexander’s Bridge (1912)
O Pioneers! (1913)
The Song of the Lark (1915)
My Ántonia (1918)
One of Ours (1922)
A Lost Lady (1923)
The Professor’s House (1925)
My Mortal Enemy (1926)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Shadows on the Rock (1931)
Lucy Gayheart (1935)
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)

The Short Story Collections
The Troll Garden (1905)
Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920)
Obscure Destinies (1932)
The Old Beauty and Others (1948)
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
Uncollected Short Stories

The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Poetry
April Twilights and Other Poems (1923)

The Non-Fiction
The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1909)
Not Under Forty (1936)
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
Miscellaneous Pieces

 

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