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...

Willa Cather was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer, best known for her novels of Nebraskan frontier life. Born in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia, she moved with her family to Catherton, Nebraska in 1883, and the landscape went on...

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 the...

Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier.Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy...

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Splendid early novel (1918) evokes the Nebraska prairie life of the author's childhood, and touchingly commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers who settled the land. von Cather, Willa

In her final novel, Willa Cather departed from her usual Great Plains settings to plumb the turbulent relationships between slaves and their owners in the antebellum South. Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in Virginia just before the...

Als Professor Godfrey St. Peter mit seiner Frau in ein neues Haus umzieht, wird er unzufrieden mit dem Weg, den sein Leben nimmt. Er behält sein verstaubtes Arbeitszimmer vom alten Haus und versucht so, an seinem alten Leben...

In "Sei leise, wenn du gehst" erzählt die Autorin Willa Cather eine emotionale Geschichte über Liebe, Verlust und das Leben im Allgemeinen. Das Buch folgt dem Protagonisten, einem Mann namens Jim, der sich mit den Höhen und Tiefen des...

"Alexanders Brücke / Mein Ärgster Feind" ist eine Sammlung zweier Romane von Willa Cather. Im ersten Roman, "Alexanders Brücke", folgen wir dem Leben des erfolgreichen Architekten Bartley Alexander. Trotz seiner Ehe mit Winifred beginnt...

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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. By placing a strong, self-reliant woman at the centre of her tale, Cather gives the...