Willa Cather
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Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. This collection includes work from the early part of Cather's career and clearly marks themes and landscapes that she would...
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The Prairie Trilogy is a series of three novels centered around life in the Midwest during the late 19th/early 20th centuries by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. First, in "O Pioneers!," we meet Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm after her father dies and leaves her to care for her three siblings. While many immigrant families are giving up their farms and moving back to the city (or to their home countries), Alexandra decides...
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Willa Cather is considered to be one of the best chroniclers of pioneer life in the 20th century. She had a long and distinguished career writing essays, poems, short stories, and novels. This story is a powerful example of a frequent theme: the haunting, sometimes painful, contrast between city and country life.
5) Paul's Case
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The 42 page article was extracted from the book: Youth and the Bright Medusa, by Willa Cather.
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Nebraska native Willa Cather set many of her books - including her second novel, "O Pioneers" - in the Midwest and often touched on themes of immigration, the challenges of the agricultural industry and the struggles of workaday farmers in her novels. The fact that she actually grew up amid the same people whose stories she depicts gave her books an authenticity that made her novels extremely popular.
In "O Pioneers," we meet the Bergsons, a family...
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English
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The Prairie Trilogy is series of three novels centered around life in the Midwest during the late 19th/early 20th centuries by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather.
First, in "O Pioneers!," we meet Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm after her father dies and leaves her to care for her three siblings. While many immigrant families are giving up their farms and moving back to the city (or to their home countries), Alexandra decides...
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Presented here is Volume III of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist novels ever written: “Orlando: A Biography” by Virginia Woolf, “O Pioneers!” by Willa Cather and “So Big” by Edna Ferber.
The first book in this collection is “Orlando: A Biography”, a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles and sexual politics in a way few books have...
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English
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Presented here is Volume IV of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist works ever written: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather. The first book in this collection is A Room of One's Own, a groundbreaking examination of women's roles in literary history by English author Virginia Woolf that delves into the barriers that prevented...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narrators
This recording includes the following stories:
- "The Lightening-Rod Man" by Herman Melville
- "One of the Missing" by Ambrose Bierce
- "The Leopard Man's Story" by Jack London
- "Tennessee's Partner" by Bret Harte
- "The New Catacomb" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin
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