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First published in 1912, "Alexanders Bridge" is a novel by American writer Willa Cather and the authors first. Although "Alexanders Bridge" was published a century ago, the book is still relevant today and has some important lessons on ways to live our life in harmony."Alexanders Bridge" tells the story of Bartley Alexander, an engineer who designs bridges. A man of action, strong and handsome, Bartley has moved from his humble western beginnings to attain success and respect among eastern elites. His comfortable life and place in Bostons high society are thanks in no small part to his loving wife, Winifred, who comes from a well-to-do family. But Bartleys life is upended on a business trip to London. There he encounters Hilda, an old college flame who is now an actress. Already grappling with the feeling that his routinized life, successful though it may be, has left him empty, running into Hilda ignites a passionate affair. The love triangle that results and Bartleys internal struggle as he leads a double life provide much of the drama that unfolds. Bartley finds himself helpless in his attempts to end his relationship with Hilda, ultimately leading to tragedy.

Originally published in 1923, "A Lost Lady" is Willa Cathers elegiac portrait of the spirit of an earlier age. In her depiction of Marian Forrester, the much-admired figurehead of culture and society in the town of Sweet Water, Cather evokes a quality of life that began, for her, to vanish sometime around the beginning of the twentieth century. To Cather, much of what was wrong with twentieth century life was the absence of those qualities that Mrs. Forrester embodies: charm, warmth, and a certain graciousness of manner that has no place in the harsher climate of an industrialised society.Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for "life on any terms," and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her. This, Willa Cathers most perfect novel, is not only a portrait of a troubling beauty, but also a haunting evocation of a noble age slipping irrevocably into the past.

La colección de cuentos The Troll Garden and Selected Stories fue el primer libro de ficción de Willa Cather y tan relevante hoy como en el momento de su publicación en 1905. Es curioso que ese duende, o troll, que aparece en el titulo original, no salte a nuestro encuentro en ninguna de las historias, todas ligadas a personajes que aman las artes y cuyas vidas se relacionan con sus diferentes expresiones, por lo que quiza solo se haga visible ante nuestros ojos considerando su sentido metaforico: el duende, el genio o la inspiracion que se revela como un fantasma tras la invocacion de cualquier forma de arte.

La historia se inicia en 1697 en Quebec, y narra un año de las vidas de Cécile Auclair y su padre Euclide Auclair, colonos franceses instalados en Canadá, deteniéndose en la vida social del Quebec primigenio, pendiente siempre de la llegada de los barcos y la salida de mercancias para Europa. Con una prosa sencilla Willa Cather logra evocar con sensibilidad y precisas descripciones el ambiente entre los pioneros que traian sus vidas y sus ilusiones al nuevo mundo. Cather recupera en esta novela el espiritu originario de los pioneros norteamericanos, uno de los temas recurrentes en su obra, su mezcla de ingenuidad y ambicion, su sentido de la comunidad y al mismo tiempo sus disputas. El espiritu de los grandes pensadores norteamericanos como David Thoreau, R.. W. Emerson o W. Whitman, impregna las paginas de "Sombras sobre la roca". Cather integra habilmente en la novela hechos pasados como recuerdos, leyendas, o historia politica o religiosa. Construyendo la narracion a base de pequeños detalles, como la taza de Cecile, o el castor de Jaques, que dan vida a la incipiente Quebec de apenas dos mil vecinos.

In this novel, Jim Burden tells the story of his beloved childhood friend Antonia, the immigrant girl and woman whose struggle and splendour represent the very source of life itself. The vitality of the pioneer West is captured in the portrait of a pioneer woman.

She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun...' A rapturous work of savage beauty, 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. It is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed itTo the anger of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, N

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.

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.

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.