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The Essential Short Stories – Willa Cather

Willa Cather surely belongs to America’s most famous authors of the early 20th century. Most of her stories are set in the Great Plains, especially in Nebraska, where she was born and where she lived. This volume is a carefully selected compilation of more than 25 of her most exciting and successful short stories.

The Essential Short Stories

The Essential Short Stories.

ISBN: 9783849672591.

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Excerpt from ‘Paul’s case’:

It was Paul’s afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburgh High School to account for his various misdemeanors. He had been suspended a week ago, and his father had called at the Principal’s office and confessed … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

One of Ours – Willa Cather

“One of Ours” is the 1922 Pulitzer price winning novel of Willa Cather. Claude Wheeler was “one of ours” who left his Nebraska farm to fight and die in the Great war. He was an eager, sensitive youth, to whose inarticulate longings life had brought no answer. In the world which seemed so catisfying to all around him he had never felt at home. Except with his mother and faithful old Mahailey. all his relationships had been disappointing and even between himself and his mother her narrow religious beliefs had made a barrier. His marriage proved the crowning disappointment of all. He lived on his prosperous acres in the midst of material plenty, hungry … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Great Plains Trilogy – Willa Cather

Willa Cather was the 1922 winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her breakthrough in literature were the three novels featured here in this edition, the so-called “Great Plains Trilogy”. All three novels stage in Nebraska and the surrounding Great Plains territory and deal with the life there, family challenges and romance. Included are:

O Pioneers!
The Song of the Lark
My Antonia

The Great Plains Trilogy

The Great Plains Trilogy.

ISBN: 9783849672898.

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Plot summary of the titles in The Great Plains Trilogy (from Wikipedia):

1. O Pioneers!

Part I – The Wild Land]
On a windy January day in Hanover, Nebraska, Alexandra Bergson is with her five-year-old brother … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Alexander’s Bridge – Willa Cather

Alexander’s Bridge is the story of a great engineer who has reached the crisis in his life when success and responsibility have begun to fret and weary a restless, energetic nature inherently impatient of restraint. Alexander tries to shake himself free, to go back to the time when life was at its highest, most adventurous pitch. He rebels against life, and life defeats him. The story is a love story, for it is in his relations with two women, Winifred, his wife, and Hilda, a young Irish actress, that Alexander learns to know himself. His pursuit of Hilda, begun in a spirit of adventure, grows into a destroying obsession. It yields him intoxicating moments of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...