This book-collection file includes Willa Cather's first five and best known novels: Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark, My Antonia, and One of Ours. It also includes the short story collection Youth and the Bright Medusa, and a Collection of Stories, Reviews, and Essays. According to Wikipedia: "Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873[1] April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains ...

Willa Cather – Selected Short Stories is a handsome collection of some of her finest short works.Well-crafted tales, her stories are often about people’s secret desires, unrequited love; about poverty and how a daily grind wears away every noble impulse in a person; and how people want what they cannot have.It’s a book about hunger and thirst, and the darkness we turn to.The precise language, profound psychological study, and finely honed plots that charact...

This book contains the complete novels of Willa Cather in the chronological order of their original publication. - Alexander's Bridge - O Pioneers! - The Song of the Lark - My Ántonia - One of Ours - A Lost Lady - The Professor's House - My Mortal Enemy - Death Comes for the Archbishop - Shadows on the Rock - Lucy Gayheart - Sapphira and the Slave Girl

This ebook compiles Willa Cather's complete novels, including "My Ántonia", "Death Comes for the Archbishop", "O Pioneers!" and "One of Ours". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapte...

“My Ántonia” evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather’s childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather’s earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants. Her story is told through the eyes of Jim Burden, a neighbor who will befriend Ántonia, teach her English, and follow the remarkable story of her life. Working in the fields of w...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...

This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Cather, Willa: My...

This ebook compiles Willa Cather's greatest writings, including novels and short stories such as "My Ántonia", "One of Ours", "Paul's Case", "O Pioneers!", "A Wagner Matinée" and "Death Comes for the Archbishop". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginni...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

Willa Sibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, then at the age of 33 she moved to New York, where she lived for the rest of her l...

"An inquiry into the nature of civilization, of man's impulse to civilize and create," from the beloved author of O Pioneers! ( The New Criterion).After completing his masterwork and garnering a great deal of money for it, history professor Godfrey St. Paul has purchased a new house. But when the time comes to move, he cannot bring himself to do so. Sitting in his comfortable study in his current house near the shore of Lake Michigan—and on the ve...

In the sun-drenched deserts of New Mexico, two missionaries confront more than hardship—they confront the soul of a nation in the making. Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's luminous and poetic novel chronicling the spiritual journey of Father Jean Marie Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant as they bring Catholicism to the American frontier in the 19th century. Based on historical figures, the story reflects on themes of faith, isolation, cultural fusion, and human endurance with...