Antonia Shimerda--Bohemian immigrant and embodiment of the American myth--has come to the Nebraska Prairie with her family to carve out a better way of life on the virgin plain. But even for the most seasoned frontiersmen, farming is ...

Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.

Based on the career of Metropolitan Opera star Olive Femstad this novel traces the life of Thea Kronberg, a singer who leaves small-town Colorado to go to Chicago to study music, where she rises to the top of her profession. After a t...

On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St Peter finds himself in the shabby study of his former home. Surrounded by the comforting, familiar sights of his past, he surveys his life and the people ...

Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and women who struggled to adapt to the new world even as they clung to the one they left behind. Reprint.

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had lived there as a student, but for ...

Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart gropes a wistful way back to the time of the horse and buggy, when some men and some women loved deeply and truly and make themselves miserable and hugged their misery.Small towns, no less than Vienna and ...

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. Alienat...

This collection of Willa Cather's stories--her first book of fiction--is as readable and relevant today as when it was first published. Each story is different, but all of them share as their subject the role of the artist in American...

This 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa Cather's masterpiece a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Jane Smiley.In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Cather created one of the most winning h...

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