The Classic Collection of Willa Cather. Pulitzer Prize 1923. Illustrated : O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, One of Ours and others

Willa Cather

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Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
Cather admired Henry James's use of language and characterization. While Cather enjoyed the novels of several women—including George Eliot, the Brontës, and Jane Austen—she regarded most women writers with disdain, judging them overly sentimental.  One contemporary exception was Sarah Orne Jewett, who became Cather's friend and mentor. Jewett advised Cather of several things: to use female narrators in her fiction (even though Cather preferred using male perspectives), to write about her "own country" (O Pioneers! was dedicated in large part to Jewett), and to write fiction that explicitly represented romantic attraction between women.Cather was also influenced by the work of Katherine Mansfield,praising in an essay Mansfield's ability "to throw a luminous streak out onto the shadowy realm of personal relationships.
Contents:
The Novels
Alexander’s Bridge
O Pioneers!
The Song of the Lark
My Ántonia
One of Ours
A Lost Lady
The Short Story Collections
The Troll Garden
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Obscure Destinies
A Collection of Stories
Uncollected Short Stories
The Poetry
April Twilights
The Non-Fiction
The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science

Sujets

• Idioma inglés
• English
• Classics
• Fiction
• Anglais

Informations

• Publié par: Andrii Ponomarenko
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9786178289058
• Langue: English

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The Classic Collection of Willa Cather. Pulitzer Prize 1923
O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, One of Ours and others
Illustrated
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
Cather admired Henry James's use of language and characterization. While Cather enjoyed the novels of several women—including George Eliot, the Brontës, and Jane Austen—she regarded most women writers with disdain, judging them overly sentimental.  One contemporary exception was Sarah Orne Jewett, who became Cather's friend and mentor. Jewett advised Cather of several things: to use female narrators in her fiction (even though Cather preferred using male perspectives), to write about her "own country" (O Pioneers! was dedicated in large part to Jewett), and to write fiction that explicitly represented romantic attraction between women.Cather was also influenced by the work of Katherine Mansfield,praising in an essay Mansfield's ability "to throw a luminous streak out onto the shadowy realm of personal relationships.

The Novels
Alexander’s Bridge
O Pioneers!
The Song of the Lark
My Ántonia
One of Ours
A Lost Lady

The Short Story Collections
The Troll Garden
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Obscure Destinies
A Collection of Stories
Uncollected Short Stories

The Poetry
April Twilights

The Non-Fiction
The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science
Table of Contents
The Novels
Alexander’s Bridge
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
EPILOGUE
O Pioneers!
PART I. The Wild Land
I
II
III
IV
V
PART II. Neighboring Fields
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
PART III. Winter Memories
I
II
PART IV. The White Mulberry Tree
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
PART V. Alexandra
I
II
III
The Song of the Lark
PART I. FRIENDS OF CHILDHOOD
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
PART II. THE SONG OF THE LARK
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
PART III. STUPID FACES
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
PART IV. THE ANCIENT PEOPLE
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
PART V. DR. ARCHIE’S VENTURE
I
II
III
IV
V
PART VI. KRONBORG
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
EPILOGUE
My Ántonia
INTRODUCTION
BOOK I. The Shimerdas
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
BOOK II. The Hired Girls
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
BOOK III. Lena Lingard
I
II
III
IV
BOOK IV. The Pioneer Woman’s Story
I
II
III
IV
BOOK V. Cuzak’s Boys
I
II
III
One of Ours
Book One: On Lovely Creek
I.
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
IX
Book Two: Enid
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
Book Three; Sunrise on the Prairie
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XII
XIII
Book Four: The Voyage of the Anchises
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
Book Five: “Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On”
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
A Lost Lady
Part One
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
Part Two
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
The Short Story Collections
The Troll Garden
On the Divide
Eric Hermannson’s Soul
The Enchanted Bluff
The Bohemian Girl
Flavia and Her Artists
The Sculptor’s Funeral
A Death in the Desert
The Garden Lodge
The Marriage of Phaedra
A Wagner Matinee
Paul’s Case
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Coming, Aphrodite!
The Diamond Mine
A Gold Slipper
Scandal
Paul’s Case
A Wagner Matinée
The Sculptor’s Funeral
A Death in the Desert
Obscure Destinies
Neighbour Rosicky
Old Mrs. Harris
Two Friends
The Old Beauty and Others
The Old Beauty
The Best Years
Before Breakfast
A Collection of Stories
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
Her Boss
Uncollected Short Stories
Lou, The Prophet
A Tale of the White Pyramid
A Son of the Celestial
The Elopement of Allen Poole
The Clemency of the Court
The Fear That Walks By Noonday
A Night at Greenway Court
The Princess Baladina: Her Adventure
Tommy, the Unsentimental
The Count of Crow’s Nest
Wee Winkie’s Wanderings
The Burglar’s Christmas
The Strategy of the Were-Wolf Dog
A Resurrection
The Prodigies
Nanette: An Aside
The Way of the World
The West Bound Train
The Dance at Chevalier’s
The Affair at Grover Station
A Singer’s Romance
The Conversion of Sum Loo
Jack-a-Boy
El Dorado
The Professor’s Commencement
The Treasure of Far Island
The Profile
The Willing Muse
Eleanor’s House
On the Gulls’ Road
Behind the Singer Tower
A Gold Slipper
Coming, Eden Bower!
Tom Outland’s Story
The Poetry
April Twilights
Dedicatory by Willa Sibert Cather
PART I. APRIL TWILIGHTS AND OTHER POEMS “GRANDMITHER, THINK NOT I FORGET”
FIDES, SPES
THE TAVERN
THE HAWTHORN TREE
THE POOR MINSTREL
ANTINOUS
LONDON ROSES
WINTER AT DELPHI
PARADOX
IN MEDIA VITA
EVENING SONG
LAMENT FUR MARSYAS
“I SOUGHT THE WOOD IN WINTER”
“I SOUGHT THE WOOD IN WINTER”
“SLEEP, MINSTREL, SLEEP”
IN ROSE-TIME
POPPIES ON LUDLOW CASTLE
PRAIRIE DAWN
AFTERMATH
THOU ART THE PEARL
ARCADIAN WINTER
PROVENCAL LEGEND
THE ENCORE
SONG
L’ENVOI
PART II. THE PALATINE IN THE “DARK AGES”
THE GAUL IN THE CAPITOL
A LIKENESS
THE SWEDISH MOTHER
SPANISH JOHNNY
AUTUMN MELODY
PRAIRIE SPRING
MACON PRAIRIE
STREET IN PACKINGTOWN
A SILVER CUP
RECOGNITION
GOING HOME
The Non-Fiction
The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science
NOTE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
Publisher: Andrii Ponomarenko © Ukraine - Kyiv 2023
ISBN: 978-617-8289-05-8
The Novels
Alexander’s Bridge
CHAPTER I
LATE ONE BRILLIANT April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had lived there as a student, but for twenty years and more, since he had been Professor of Philosophy in a Western university, he had seldom come East except to take a steamer for some foreign port. Wilson was standing quite still, contemplating with a whimsical smile the slanting street, with its worn paving, its irregular, gravely colored houses, and the row of naked trees on which the thin sunlight was still shining. The gleam of the river at the foot of the hill made him blink a little, not so much because it was too bright as because he found it so pleasant. The few passers-by glanced at him unconcernedly, and even the children who hurried along with their school-bags under their arms seemed to find it perfectly natural that a tall brown gentleman should be standing there, looking up through his glasses at the gray housetops.
The sun sank rapidly; the silvery light had faded from the bare boughs and the watery twilight was setting in when Wilson at last walked down the hill, descending into cooler and cooler depths of grayish shadow. His nostril, long unused to it, was quick to detect the smell of wood smoke in the air, blended with the odor of moist spring earth and the saltiness that came up the river with the tide. He crossed Charles Street between jangling street cars and shelving lumber drays, and after a moment of uncertainty wound into Brimmer Street. The street was quiet, deserted, and hung with a thin bluish haze. He had already fixed his sharp eye upon the house which he reasoned should be his objective point, when he noticed a woman approaching rapidly from the opposite direction. Always an interested observer of women, Wilson would have slackened his pace anywhere to follow this one with his impersonal, appreciative glance. She was a person of distinction he saw at once, and, moreover, very handsome. She was tall, carried her beautiful head proudly, and moved with ease and certainty. One immediately took for granted the costly privileges and fine spaces that must lie in the background from which such a figure could emerge with this rapid and elegant gait. Wilson noted her dress, too, — for, in his way, he had an eye for such things, — particularly her brown furs and her hat. He got a blurred impression of her fine color, the violets she wore, her white gloves, and, curiously enough, of her veil, as she turned up a flight of steps in front of him and disappeared.
Wilson was able to enjoy lovely things that passed him on the wing as completely and deliberately as if they had been dug-up marvels, long anticipated, and definitely fixed at the end of a railway journey. For a few pleasurable seconds he quite forgot where he was going, and only after the door had closed behind her did he realize that the young woman had entered the house to which he had directed his trunk from the South Station that morning. He hesitated a moment before mount