Bøger af Willa Cather

First published in 1925, "The Professor's House" is the profound study of a middle-aged man's unhappiness by critically acclaimed American author Willa Cather. The novel tells the story of its central character, Professor Godfrey St. Peter, in three parts. In the first part, the Professor feels that he is losing control over his life and resists the direction it is taking. He is displeased with his family's move to a new house, with his daughters being grown and married, and with the death of Tom Outland in the First World War, who was a beloved student and the fiancé of his oldest daughter. In the second part, the Professor recalls the first-person account of Tom and his explorations in New Mexico. Tom's goodness and love of nature are a sharp contrast to the materialism and superficiality of the Professor's new son-in-law and his death has been a great loss to the family. The third section finds the Professor alone, despondent, and losing his will to live while secluded in his old study as the rest of his family is off on vacation. "The Professor's House" is a moving and affecting study of fear, mortality, and one man's struggle to find meaning in his changing life. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

종달새의 노래는 서양의 풍경을 배경으로 한 젊은 여성이 예술가로서의 각성에 대한 이야기를 담고 있습니다. 가수를 꿈꾸는 테아 크론 보르그는 콜로라도의 작은 마을에서 메트로폴리탄 오페라 하우스의 가능성의 세계로 탈출하기 위해 고군분투합니다. 고전적인 스타일의 는 아름답고 잊을 수없는 미국의 결단력과 땅과의 불가분의 관계에 대한 이야기입니다. 종달새의 노래는 서양의 풍경을 배경으로 한 젊은 여성이 예술가로서의 각성에 대한 이야기를 담고 있습니다. 가수를 꿈꾸는 테아 크론 보르그는 콜로라도의 작은 마을에서 메트로폴리탄 오페라 하우스의 가능성의 세계로 탈출하기 위해 고군분투합니다. 고전적인 스타일의 는 아름답고 잊을 수없는 미국의 결단력과 땅과의 불가분의 관계에 대한 이야기입니다.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. The story of Claude Wheeler, a young man dissatisfied with Nebraska farm life as well as his marriage, and desperate for a more cosmopolitan existence. When America joins the Great War, Claude enlists and finds excitement and fulfillment--as well as tragedy--on the battlefield.ttlefield.

One of Ours is Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive but aspiring protagonist, has ready access to his family's fortune but refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his uncaring father and pious mother, and rejected by a wife whose only love is missionary work, Claude is an idealist without ideals to cling to. Only when his country enters the Great War does he find the meaning of his life. In One of Ours, Willa Cather explores the life of a young Nebraskan whose ambitions drive him to a frontier wilder and more violent than the one tamed by his pioneer ancestors. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Fourteen short stories from one of America's finest writers. Willa Cather was fascinated by the ruthless of nature, the brutality of mankind, and the beauty of art, all of which are evident in this richly diverse collection. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded it in a 1923 edition entitled April Twilights and Other Poems. This Everyman's Library edition reproduces for the first time all the poems from both versions of April Twilights, along with a number of uncollected and previously unpublished poems by Cather, as well as an illuminating selection of her newly released letters. In such lyrical poems as "The Hawthorn Tree," "Winter at Delphi," "Prairie Spring," "Poor Marty," and "Going Home," Cather exhibits both a finely tuned sensitivity to the beauties of the physical world and a richly symbolic use of the landscapes of myth. The themes that were to animate her later masterpieces found their first expression in these haunting, elegiac ballads and sonnets.

Myra Driscoll e il marito Oswald Henshawe fanno ritorno nella natia Parthia, Illinois. La loro storia d’amore è ancora sulle bocche di tutti: Myra, infatti, ha rinunciato ad una cospicua eredità solo per fuggire insieme ad Oswald, sposandolo in gran segreto. Ora, a distanza di anni, Myra inizia a chiedersi quale sia stato, a conti fatti, il valore di quel gesto: emanciparsi dalle opprimenti prospettive famigliari, assaporando la vita come un’avventura, l’ha portata ad una relazione ordinaria, ad una felicità che non ha assolutamente niente di nobile o di eccezionale. In questo romanzo dai contorni drammatici, Willa Cather ci offre uno spaccato della monotona vita di provincia, riflettendo al contempo sulle illusorie velleità giovanili, che spingono una persona a scelte provocatorie che nascondono, forse, solo l’intrinseca impossibilità di conoscere sé stessi... Da cosa si fugge, infatti, se non dalla propria incapacità di essere felici? Wilella Sibert Cather (1873-1947) nasce nei dintorni di Winchester (Virginia) da una famiglia di origini gallesi. Ancora bambina, si trasferisce in Nebraska, dove compie i suoi studi, e poi a Pittsburgh. Nel 1906, infine, si stabilisce a New York, che rimarrà da allora in poi la sua città d’elezione. Per i successivi quarant’anni vi abiterà e vi scriverà, condividendo vita e lavoro con Edith Lewis, editor e copywriter di successo. Willa Cather è considerata una delle voci più autorevoli della letteratura americana del Novecento: narratrice impeccabile di quella Frontiera che rappresentava allora il motore – economico e morale – di una nazione in rapida crescita. L’immigrazione, la vita nelle Grandi Pianure e le discrepanze sociali sono da lei raccontate con piglio intimista, secondo stilemi introspettivi che risentono della coeva letteratura modernista europea. Fra le sue opere più famose, si possono citare "O Pioneers!", "The Song of the Lark" e "Shadows on the Rock".

The novel that first made Cather famous--a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman--in a handsome new volume. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

"This bittersweet tale about a professor's desire to stay in his old study and cling to what used to be on the eve of moving into a new house sparks deep introspection in a story that explores a mid-life crisis and family life in a 1920's Midwestern college town"--

By Willa Cather, The Professor's House is a look into the domestic life of a 1920s Midwestern town.

Bartley Alexander is slowly being buried alive, unable to bridge the gap between his successful life and the freedom he thought success would bring. An important career, a caring wife, a lovely home-these just aren't enough for Bartley. Torn between duty and desire, he realizes too late that when you flirt with disaster, disaster might just flirt back. Originally published in 1912, Alexander's Bridge is Willa Cather's first novel.

Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather's own (Red Cloud), My Ántonia tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. Ántonia and Jim, like many of the other characters in this 1918 novel, are based on Cather's childhood friends. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first published edition of the novel. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, key illustrations, an introduction that gives readers a historical overview of both author and novel, and a note on the text."Contexts and Backgrounds" is a rich collection of materials organized around the novel's central themes: "Autobiographical and Biographical Writings," "Letters," and "Americanization and Immigration." Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, Latrobe Carroll, Rose C. Feld, Guy Reynolds, Woodrow Wilson, Peter Roberts, Horace M. Kallen, Sarka B. Hrbkova, and Rose Rosicky, among others, are included."Criticism" spans a century of scholarship on Willa Cather and My Ántonia, from contemporary reviews by Henry Walcott Boynton, H. L. Mencken, and Elia W. Peattie, among others, to recent critical assessments by Terence Martin, Blanche Gelfant, Jean Schwind, Richard H. Millington, Susan Rosowski, Mike Fischer, Janis Stout, Marilee Lindemann, and Linda Joyce Brown.A Chronology of Cather's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Willa Cather's One of Ours (1922) may have won a Pulitzer Prize, but it remains one of her most controversial novels. What, her critics ask, does a woman know about war? Inspired by the death of her cousin G.P. Cather in the fighting of WWI, Cather traces the trajectory of protagonist Claude Wheeler from Nebraska farmer to U.S. soldier. Based on G.P.'s own letters and Cather's meticulous research, One of Ours asks readers to confront the harsh realities of war through Claude's experiences. Joining the army allows Claude to escape his bitter life, but what he finds in war is no less disappointing.

My Ántonia is a 1918 novel by American writer Willa Cather. The last book of her ¿Great Plains¿ trilogy, it is considered to be among her best works and proceeds ¿O Pioneers!¿ and ¿The Song of the Lark¿. The novel continues the tale of the two children brought to the pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century: Jim Burden, an orphan from Virginia, and Ántonia Shimerda. Cather's ¿My Ántoniä is her masterpiece and constitutes a must-read for fans of her fantastic frontier fiction. Willa Sibert Cather (1873¿1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her World War I novel ¿One of Ours¿ (1922). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from ¿Willa Cather - Written For The Borzoi, 1920¿ by H. L. Mencken.

After the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, where he meets his first and most prominent love, Antonia Shimera. As pioneers in Nebraska, the Shimera family expected hardships, but none as devastating as a death in the family. Narrated by Jim Burden, an orphan living with his grandparents next door to the Shimera's, My Antonia follows the coming of age and life of Jim and Antonia, the eldest daughter in the Shimera family. Starting when Jim and Antonia were young kids, the Burdens and the Shimera's live as neighbors in the plains of 19th century Nebraska. While the weather was often harsh and the untamed land made it difficult to yield crops, the Shimera family worked hard to maintain a content life. However, when a tragic death strikes the Shimera family, they fall into poverty despite the aid Jim's grandparents try to offer. As her family's farm fails, Antonia has to quit school to help out with manual labor. Antonia gets a job as a town girl, helping care for children and households in order to support her family. Meanwhile, Jim moves into town as well for higher education, and is able to reconnect with Antonia, though she does not have as much leisure time as he does. As they both grow into adulthood, Jim witnesses the Shimera's and Antonia to make difficult choices and somber sacrifices, contrasting their hardships to his own comfortable life. My Antonia earned commercial and critical acclaim soon after its publication, and has inspired film and stage adaptations since. With themes of feminism, insight on lower class Americans, and the use of deep metaphors, Willa Cather's My Antonia is a classic gem worthy of even more recognition. Now redesigned with an eye-catching cover and printed in an easy-to-read font, this edition of Willa Cather's My Antonia restores the classic novel to create an engaging experience for modern audiences.

Alexander stood six feet and more in the archway, glowing with strength and cordiality and rugged good looks. There were other bridge-builders in the world, certainly -- but it was always Alexander's picture that the Sunday Supplement men wanted, because he looked as a tamer of rivers ought to look. Under his tumbled sandy hair his head seemed as hard and powerful as a catapult, and his shoulders looked strong enough in themselves to support a span of any one of his ten great bridges that cut the air above as many rivers.At the pinnacle of his career, Bartley Alexander stands proudly in the public eye. Yet for those who know him well, a certain mystery lingers about him -- some strange aspect of his past well hidden from view . . . something, perhaps, that might even shake the mightiest of engineering triumphs.Willa Cather, a journalist, editor and traveler born in 1876, established her place in the literary world with the publication in 1912 of Alexander's Bridge, her first novel. Her later masterpieces included My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop.

The narrator reflects with wistful, unjudgmental melancholy on his family, the experience of growing up in the midst of only partial tamed vastness, the humanity and folly of those around him, and above on on the captivating immigrant girl Antonia, whom he must always love from afar. My Antonia is full of the quiet losses of a life full of difficult decisions, but also the quiet satisfactions of goodness cherished despite all hardship.