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  • SONG OF THE LARK
    WILLA CATHER
    The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young girl, Thea, who leaves home to go to the big city to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous opera star. Along the way, her realization of the mediocrity of her peers propels her to greater levels of accomplishment, but in the course of her ascent she must discard t...

    $19.00

  • DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
    WILLA CATHER
    Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and loneliness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her t...

    $19.00

  • THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE
    WILLA CATHER
    The Professor's House by Willa Cather is a tale about dealing with loss and change. Godfrey St. Peter is a successful author and professor at a small Midwestern college, Hamilton, whose impending move to a new house sets off a series of personal and familial tensions. ...

    $39.70

  • APRIL TWILIGHTS, AND OTHER POEMS
    WILLA CATHER
    Valuable not only as an early collection of thirty-seven poems, but for "Professor Slote's introduction, which considers events leading to the poems, critically analyses them and then brilliantly relates them to Willa Cather's fictional themes and techniques." (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • O PIONEERS!
    WILLA CATHER
    O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918). O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional[1] town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the tu...

    $39.70

  • THE SONG OF THE LARK
    WILLA CATHER
    The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. It is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, following O Pioneers! (1913) and preceding My Ántonia (1918). The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers and develops her singing voice. Her story is told agains...

    $39.70

  • ONE OF OURS
    WILLA CATHER
    One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native in the first decades of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and hi...

    $39.70

  • THE TROLL GARDEN, AND SELECTED STORIES
    WILLA CATHER
    This collection of Willa Cather stories—her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career—is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and th...

    $39.70

  • A COLLECTION OF STORIES, REVIEWS AND ESSAYS
    WILLA CATHER
    This book features a collection of Cather's short stories, including Peter, On the Divide, Eric Hermannson's Soul, The Sentimentality of William Tavener, The Namesake, The Enchanted Bluff, The Joy of Nelly Deane, The Bohemian Girl, Consequences, The Bookkeeper's Wife, Ardessa, and Her Boss. A collection of reviews and essays by Cather are also included. Authors covered by the r...

    $39.70

  • A LOST LADY
    WILLA CATHER
    The finest family in Sweet Water, the Forresters are known for their gatherings, and Mrs. Forrester, to be an enchanting hostess. Niel Herbert finds himself at the Forester estate playing with friends, and he falls in love with Mrs. Forrester, and what she represents. As he grows up, he finds it increasingly harder to keep his boyhood image of her, and she does nothing to help....

    $9.00

  • THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE
    WILLA CATHER
    “An inquiry into the nature of civilization, of man’s impulse to civilize and create,” from the beloved author of O Pioneers! (The New Criterion). After completing his masterwork and garnering a great deal of money for it, history professor Godfrey St. Paul has purchased a new house. But when the time comes to move, he cannot bring himself to do so. Sitting in his comfortable s...

    $85.00

  • MY MORTAL ENEMY
    WILLA CATHER
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of O Pioneers! presents a moving study of an ambitious woman and her troubled marriage in this 1926 novella. When young Myra Driscoll is forced to choose between a large inheritance from her great-uncle and marrying the man she loves, she follows her heart. She and Oswald Henshawe leave their small Illinois town to pursue a future together in N...

    $85.00

  • MY ANTONIA
    WILLA CATHER
    One of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century, Willa Cather’s heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman’s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains. Through Jim Burden’s affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, the free-spirited Ántonia Shimerda, a larger, uniquely American portrait emerges, both of a community struggling w...

    $144.99

  • MI ANTONIA
    CATHER, WILLA
    Agotado

    $585.00

  • LUCY GAYHEART
    CATHER, WILLA
    Agotado

    $580.00

  • PIONEROS
    CATHER, WILLA
    Agotado

    $530.00

  • PARA MAYORES DE CUARENTA
    CATHER, WILLA
    Agotado

    $370.00

  • LIBROS DE CUENTOS
    CATHER WILLA
    «Era, sencillamente, que la consideraba una gran artista. Tan buena como Flaubert.» Este juicio de Truman Capote quizá no ilustre tanto las virtudes narrativas de Willa Cather como su gran influencia en la literatura norteamericana del siglo XX. En este volumen se reúnen todos los libros de cuentos que la autora publicó o proyectó en vida: son, en total, dieciocho piezas que, d...
    Agotado

    $1,015.00

  • MI ENEMIGO MORTAL
    CATHER, WILLA
    «Sabía lo que quería escribir, tenía una concepción noble y profunda de la vida y supo cómo hacerlo.» José Maria Guelbenzu«Quien se acerque por primera vez a la obra de esta autora, puede concluir que la literatura universal guarda aún muchos tesoros por descubrir.» José Miguel Nieto. AceprensaMyra Driscoll es una leyenda en su pueblo natal, Parthia, al sur de Illinois: renunci...
    Agotado

    $320.00

  • PIONEROS
    CATHER, WILLA
    Situada en una pequeña localidad de Nebraska a finales del siglo xix, Pioneros relata una historia de inmigración y supervivencia cuya figura central es Alexandra, una valiente joven que, a la muerte de su padre, se hace cargo de la familia y que, con su tesón, su inteligencia y su trabajo, consigue sacar adelante sus tierras desafiando las convenciones sociales sobre el papel ...
    Agotado

    $385.00

  • UNA DAMA EXTRAVIADA
    WILLA CATHER
    El mundo de Willa Cather, su coraje y su independencia, se ve claramente reflejado en esta exquisita nouvelle.Con una prosa espléndida, Willa Cather nos traslada al paisaje desolado de un Oeste huraño para explicarnos la historia de una mujer que, tentada por las circunstancias, pasa de ser una dama respetable a una mujer señalada por todas las habladurías que inundarán el día ...
    Agotado

    $310.00