Brilliantly intelligent, rich and stylish Myra is a living legend in her hometown.But she sends shockwaves through the community when she rejects her riches and elopes with hard-up Oswald Henshawe.When Nellie, a long-time acquaintance of Myras, next sees the couple, they are living a glamorously poor Bohemian life in post-Revolution Paris, with singers, actors, poets and artists in and out of their apartment.But, when elegant poverty becomes real poverty in a tumbledown hotel, Myra realises the identity of her Mortal Enemy.This heart-rending study of the blessings and curses of love is perfect for fans of Thomas Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles and Middlemarch by George Eliot.
From one of the foremost 20th-century novelists, a portrait of a formidable woman who defies the limitations set on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. This coming-of-age novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, is one of Cather''s most lyrical and popular.
Willa Cather''s My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.
Tom Outland, killed in the Great War, seemed an embodiement of the American frontier spirit But he has left a troubling legacy, inspiring to his former professor Godfrey St Peter, but bringing betrayal and strife to the professor''s two married daughters.
The Troll Garden is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1905.This collection contains the following seven stories:"Flavia and Her Artists""The Sculptors Funeral""A Death in the Desert""The Garden Lodge""The Marriage of Phaedra""A Wagner Matinee""Pauls Case"
With Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather's published works made another jump in length: from poetry to short stories, and now to a short novel. In many ways, this short novel contained less of her characteristic insight-into-people-and-places than was displayed in the previously published collection of short stories: The Troll Garden. It was almost as if this was an exercise at extending the number of pages used, rather than a natural growth of feeling. At the same time, however, it is still the inner-workings and driving-force of life that command her attention, and thus mine. It is the story of Bartley Alexander, a renowned engineer and bridge builder, who happens to be one of those people who seems to be kissed by good fortune. His career is incredibly successful, he marries a rich girl (who he also happens to be in love with), and to top it all off, he gets to travel between Boston and London on a regular basis. What's not to love? His somewhat idyllic life begins to unravel, however, when he becomes reacquainted with a former flam....CONTINÚA
Willa Cather was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1873. When she was ten years old, her family moved to the prairies of Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. At the age of twenty-one, she graduated from the University of Nebraska, and she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. In 1903, her first book, April Twilights, a collection of poems, was published, and two years later The Troll Garden, a collection of stories, appeared in print. After the publication of her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, in 1912, Cather devoted herself full time to writing, and over the years she completed eleven more novels (including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop), four collections of short stories, and two volumes of essays. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours in 1923. She died in 1947.
Don Hedger, pittore davanguardia che non vuole avere successo nel senso consueto del termine, divide un piccolo appartamento newyorkese con il suo cane Caesar.Un giorno lappartamento accanto viene occupato da Eden Bower, una ragazza che sembra predestinata a diventare una stella, e tutto cio in cui Don crede comincia a vacillare.Ma puo durare una storia tra chi non vuole il successo e chi si e preparata fin da bambina a conquistare il mondo?
