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In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic
Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills
and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in
custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour
spreads his faith in the only way he knows—gently, all the while
contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes
openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these
events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a
place where time itself seems suspended. Â
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 detail and
explore for the remainder of her life.
Alongside THE BOHEMIAN GIRL, Harper Perennial will publish the
short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville,
Stephen Crane, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully
designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary
fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also,
in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new
collections being published in the "Summer of the Short Story." A
story from Lydia Peelle′s forthcoming collection, REASONS FOR AND
ADVANTAGES OF BREATHING, will be printed at the back of this
volume.
The novels O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ãntonia made
Willa Cather's reputation and, though published separately, are
now studied together as Willa Cather’s Great Plains
Trilogy. These three novels, set in Nebraska and Colorado, cemented
Cather’s reputation in the early 1920s as a writer who exalted
the lives of ordinary people. Together, these novels portray the
magnificent prairie landscape and the indomitable spirit of the men
and women who inhabited, and adapted, to its harsh beauty: My
Ã​ntonia: The intertwined stories of Jim Burden, an orphan from
Virginia, and the elder daughter in a family of Czech immigrants,
Ãntonia Shimerda, who are each brought to Nebraska as children. O
Pioneers!: The Bergsons move from Sweden and struggle to carve out
a living on their Nebraska homestead. The eldest daughter,
Alexandra, inherits the farm when her father dies, and devotes her
life to its success even as other immigrant families leave the
prairie, defeated. The Song of the Lark: Thea Kronborg grows up in
a small Colorado town, next to the railroad that connects her to a
wider world, a world she will conquer with her glorious voice
and strength of will.
The Burglar's Christmas was originally published near the beginning
of Willa Cather's writing career in 1896 under the pseudonym of
Elizabeth L. Seymour. The story follows William Crawford on the
cold streets of Chicago as he contemplates the multiple failures
plaguing his life, including his time at college and careers in
journalism, real estate, and performing. Distraught, he tries one
more role: thief. Attempting to burgle a residence and caught in
the act by the lady of the house, William must come to terms with
the choices that led him to that moment. Cather provides a
heartwarming short story of redemption and love at Christmas, a
timely reminder that kindness is in everyone, just waiting to be
uncovered.
'He drew a long sigh of rich content. The old life, with all its
bitterness and useless antagonism and flimsy sophistries, its brief
delights that were always tinged with fear and distrust and
unfaith, that whole miserable, futile, swindled world of Bohemia
seemed immeasurably distant and far away, like a dream that is over
and done.' First published in 1896, The Burglar's Christmas is a
short story by the great American writer Willa Cather. Set in
Chicago on a cold Christmas Eve, the down-and-out Crawford learns
the value of forgiveness. (Part of Renard's Christmas Card Classics
series, 25% of the RRP of each book sold goes to Three Peas, a
small refugee charity. This year, instead of a Christmas card, why
not send a book?)
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My Ãntonia (Paperback)
Willa Cather
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The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, Ãntonia must adapt
to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest.
Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, and family tragedy,
she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm. A
fictional record of how women helped forge the communities that
formed a nation, My Ãntonia is also a hauntingly eloquent
celebration of the strength, courage, and spirit of America’s
early pioneers.Â
Includes the unabridged text of Cather's classic novel plus a
complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough
understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive
guide includes chapter-by-chapter summaries, explanations and
discussions of the plot, question-and-answer sections, author
biography, analytical paper topics, list of characters,
bibliography, and more.
This Norton Critical Edition brings to life-through Cather's words,
and through the words and images of others-the uniquely American
frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers! for a
childhood friend, Cather wrote, "In this one I hit the home
pasture..." "Contexts and Backgrounds" includes a rich selection of
autobiographical and biographical remembrances (including three
interviews with Cather), literary contexts (by Cather and her
contemporaries, Henry James and Sarah Orne Jewett), and writings on
the American West (including selected letters that paint a picture
of one family's life on the Nebraska prairie). "Criticism" provides
seven contemporary reviews and eight modern critical
interpretations by David Stouck, John J. Murphy, C. Susan
Wiesenthal, Marilee Lindemann, Melissa Ryan, Guy Reynolds, and
Sharon O'Brien.
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My Antonia (Paperback)
Willa Cather; Edited by Janet Sharistanian
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'As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the
water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie
the colour of wine-stains...And there was so much motion in it; the
whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.' My Antonia (1918)
depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the
tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet
terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born
Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows. Jim
Burden recounts his memories of Antonia Shimerda, whose family
settle in Nebraska from Bohemia. Together they share childhoods
spent in a new world. Jim leaves the prairie for college and a
career in the east, while Antonia devotes herself to her large
family and productive farm. Her story is that of the land itself, a
moving portrait of endurance and strength. Described on publication
as 'one of the best [novels] that any American has ever done', My
Antonia paradoxically took Cather out of the rank of provincial
novelists as the same time that it celebrated the provinces, and
mythologized a period of American history that had to be lost
before its value could be understood. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over
100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest
range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather; Introduction by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
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O Pioneers! (Paperback)
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The first of Cather’s renowned prairie novels, O Pioneers! established a new voice in American literature—turning the stories of ordinary Midwesterners and immigrants into authentic literary characters.
Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather's
own (Red Cloud), My Antonia tells the story of Antonia Shimerda, a
Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted
from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. Antonia 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 Antonia, 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.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. My Antonia is Willa Cather's
masterpiece about 19th-century Nebraskan pioneers. My Antonia
depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the
tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet
terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born
Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows. Jim
Burden recounts his memories of Antonia Shimerda, whose family
settle in Nebraska from Bohemia. Together they share childhoods
spent in a new world. Jim leaves the prairie for college and a
career in the east, while Antonia devotes herself to her large
family and productive farm. Her story is that of the land itself, a
moving portrait of endurance and strength.
The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the
American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it To the anger
of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their
family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, Nebraska
following the death of their father. As the years pass, Alexandra
rises heroically to the challenge, finding strength in the savage
beauty of the land even as loneliness and personal tragedies crowd
in. A rapturous work of understated lyricism, Willa Cather's 1913
tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the
Nebraskan prairie is also the story of what it means to be
American.
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O Pioneers! (Paperback)
Willa Cather; Edited by Marilee Lindemann
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`For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the
waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love
and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and
glorious.' Willa Cather's second novel, O Pioneers! (1913) tells
the story of Alexandra Bergson and her determination to save her
immigrant family's Nebraska farm. Clear-headed and fiercely
independent, Alexandra's passionate faith in the prairie makes her
a wealthy landowner. By placing a strong, self-reliant woman at the
centre of her tale, Cather gives the quintessentially American
novel of the soil a radical cast. Yet, although influenced by the
democratic utopianism of Walt Whitman and the serene regionalism of
Sarah Orne Jewett, O Pioneers! is more than merely an elegy for the
lost glories of America's pioneer past. In its rage for order and
efficiency, the novel testifies to the cultural politics of the
Progressive Era, the period of massive social and economic
transformations that helped to modernize the United States in the
years between the Civil War and World War. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
'Quite simply a masterpiece ... I am completely bowled over by it;
by the power of its writing, by the vividness of its scene painting
and by the stories it tells' A. N. Wilson 'Where there is great
love there are always miracles' Two French priests have been sent
to New Mexico to reawaken the faith. There, they must contend with
unforgiving landscapes, danger, rebellion and loneliness. But
through their many years together they are sustained by faith,
friendship and the awe-inspiring majesty that surrounds them. A
work of great simplicity and sublime beauty, Willa Cather's
acclaimed novel asks, what is a life well lived? Death Comes for
the Archbishop is a masterpiece by the author of O Pioneers! and
the great novelist of American frontier life. 'Its whole effect
works slowly and mysteriously ... a major, and rare, artistic
achievement' A. S. Byatt
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather; Introduction by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
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Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
Willa Cather's 1935 novel drew on her lifelong interest in music,
which plays a transformative role in the lives of her characters.
Cather's last novel set in the Great Plains tells the story of
young Lucy Gayheart, who escapes life in small-town Haverford,
Nebraska, in 1902 to pursue a career in music. In Chicago she falls
in love with an older singer, Clement Sebastian, who finds renewed
inspiration in her. However, tragic chance destroys their ensuing
love affair. The novel has evoked divergent responses among critics
and readers ever since its publication. This Willa Cather Scholarly
Edition includes a historical essay providing fresh insight into
the novel, the role of music, and Cather's writing process. It also
features photographs, maps, and explanatory notes with a full range
of biographical, historical, and cultural information. The textual
editing of the novel, approved by the Committee on Scholarly
Editions of the Modern Language Association, draws on corrected
typescripts and proofs and presents a clean, authoritative text of
the first edition.
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