Bøger af Willa Cather

This collection of short stories was first published in 1920. It includes several stories originally published in magazines and the last three are from her first book of short stories, The Troll Garden.

Set in the 1850s, this short novel is about the struggles and triumphs of a bishop, Jean Marie Latour, and his loyal friend and vicar, Father Joseph Vaillant. They have been sent to reawaken and spread the Roman Catholic faith in an area where it has grown weak: New Mexico, recently annexed by the United States. Desolate and remote, the territory is home to many diverse groups: Mexicans, including those on ranches established for hundreds of years; Indians, who have been there much longer and who are divided by language and customs into thirty nations; and newcomers¿hunters, fur trappers, and those seeking gold. This book is as much their story as it is the story of the priests and the vast changes the land itself underwent in those years.Death Comes for the Archbishop was a departure for Willa Cather, who had already published eight novels before publishing this one in 1927. The novel doesn¿t try to follow a single unified story the way many historical novels do; instead, its nine chapters are episodic, filled with stories, legends, histories, and descriptions of the Southwest, which Cather had been visiting for many years before she started writing it.Many of its main characters, including the bishop and his vicar, are thinly disguised versions of real-life historical figures, while other famous New Mexicans of the day, including the frontiersman Kit Carson and the ¿powerful old priest,¿ Antonio José Martínez, appear under their actual names.

A Lost Lady, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.

New Mexico has passed into American hands, and two French missionary priests are sent to assume responsibility for the new diocese. Bishop Jean Marie Latour and Vicar Joseph Vaillant, friends from boyhood, arrive at a time when all travel is still by foot or on horseback and the region is undergoing great change. As they work to expand the Catholic church's influence and care for the residents, they come to understand the impact of European expansion on native groups and develop a deep respect for the people of the desert region.Along the way they endure life-threatening adventures, from snowstorms to outbreaks of disease to the unstable politics of the time, contend with the scandalous behavior of local priests, and come to terms with the responsibilities of faith at the intersection of American colonial pressure and native resistance.Throughout the novel, which is based loosely on historical characters, Willa Cather beautifully renders the dramatic landscapes of the Southwest, painting scenes of stark mountains, dangerous canyons, and lush secret springs that nourish the land.

American author Willa Cather wrote a book titled The Professor's House. The story begins with Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his wife when move to a new house. He becomes uneasy about the route of his life is taking. His two daughters' marriages resulted in their departure from the house and the addition of two new sons-in-law, causing a midlife crisis that leaves the Professor feeling as though he has nothing to look forward to and has lost the will to live. The novel focuses on the relationships between the Professor and his new sons-in-law and family, while also making allusions to their grief over Tom Outland's, who was his student, friend and also the fiancé of his elder daughter, loss during the Great War. What will the Professor do to manage his family? How will he overcome his and his family's pain? Read The Professor's House to know the complete story.

The first book written by American novelist Willa Cather is named Alexander's Bridge. Bartley Alexander is a well-known bridge builder and construction engineer going through a midlife crisis. After being married to Winifred, Bartley brings back his relationship with an old flame in London, Hilda Burgoyne. Bartley's sense of propriety and honor is wounded by the situation. While some of the chapters are interesting an amazing, others can create thrill and panic among the readers. With so much of twists and turn the story creates excitement among the readers. In Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather's attempts to compile many of her classic thoughts into a single draft at an affordable price so everyone can read it. The narrative was a "black and white western," but its main themes were truth and ethics.

Willa Cather published a collection of short stories called The Troll Garden. The stories share a common theme in that they feature characters who desire for the world of beauty and imagination but are continuously attacked by the obscene and vicious outer world. In the short tale "The Sculptor's Funeral," the townspeople of a prairie village are shown in their reactions when a well-known sculptor's body is brought back to be buried there. Today "Paul's Case," the book's concluding story, is regarded as a national classic in America. While some stories are amazing and fantastic others can create panic and trill among the readers. Willa Cather attempts to compile many of his classic thoughts in a single draft and offered at an affordable price so that everyone can read them. The book leaves the readers with an overwhelming sea of emotions.

Young And The Bright Medusa, is a collection of short stories, written by Willa Cather between 1905 and 1920 in a number of magazines. The contrast and tension between artists, or anyone who in some way aspired to the "art life," and the rest of society, was the central issue. Ms. Cather was undoubtedly a talented author, and practically every one of her stories contains a gem-like passage. The majority of the stories in this book are set in New York City and Boston, and they are mainly about artists - musicians, authors, and sculptors. The book is a collection of short stories by Cather that explores a common theme-the struggles of the artistic temperament in a commercial world-through utilizing opera divas, daydreaming teenagers, and teary-eyed spinsters. To read this unique work by Ms Cather, readers should go though the Young and The Bright Medusa!

One Of Ours is a book written by Willa Cather, who later received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. In One of Ours, Cather brings World War I to the heartland of Nebraska and sensitively guides the reader through the highs and lows experienced by a young man who is already enjoying what are perhaps his life's greatest triumphs. But, One of Ours is not a tale of battle. Instead, it's just another excellent examination of the most fundamental aspirations, phobias, and concerns of travelers. This is an emotional tale of purposelessness and human restlessness. At the turn of the century, Claude Wheeler was born in Nebraska to a wealthy agricultural family. Claude, who is unsatisfied with his job and his wife, finds fulfillment while serving in France during World War I. How will Claude survive during the War? What will happen to Claude's family? To read this amazing collection of ideas based on sacrifices and life, readers should go through the book!

My Antonia is a pioneer and important book written by Willa Cather. The book describes a woman's difficult immigrant existence in the Midwest and her desire for a better life. The story of Jim Burden, an orphaned youngster from Virginia, and Antonia Shimerda, the eldest child of Bohemian immigrants, who were both sent as children to be pioneers in Nebraska at the end of the 19th century, is told in the book. The Bohemians (of the modern Czech Republic) are the immigrants the novel primarily concerns themselves with, but there are also Swedes, Norwegians, Russians, Austrians, and Hungarians. But, how do Jim and Antonia make themselves pioneers? To find this answer, readers should go through this book!

American novelist Willa Cather wrote a book titled The Song of the Lark in 1915. The book tells the story of a talented artist who was born in a small town in Colorado, where she finds and focuses on her singing voice. Her narrative is set against the backdrop of the developing American West, where she was born in a village near a train line, the rapidly expanding city of Chicago around the beginning of the 20th century, and the US audience for singers with her caliber compared to Europe. Her character is so indulging that it makes the reader turn through pages. The Song Of The Lark leaves the reader with an overwhelming sea of emotions. The book is now available in a new eye-catching cover and professionally typeset manuscript which can be read by readers of several age groups.

The novels O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia made Willa Cather's reputation and, though published separately, are now studied together as Willa Cather's Great Plains Trilogy. These three novels, set in Nebraska and Colorado, cemented Cather's reputation in the early 1920s as a writer who exalted the lives of ordinary people. Together, these novels portray the magnificent prairie landscape and the indomitable spirit of the men and women who inhabited, and adapted, to its harsh beauty: My Á​ntonia: The intertwined stories of Jim Burden, an orphan from Virginia, and the elder daughter in a family of Czech immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought to Nebraska as children. O Pioneers!: The Bergsons move from Sweden and struggle to carve out a living on their Nebraska homestead. The eldest daughter, Alexandra, inherits the farm when her father dies, and devotes her life to its success even as other immigrant families leave the prairie, defeated. The Song of the Lark: Thea Kronborg grows up in a small Colorado town, next to the railroad that connects her to a wider world, a world she will conquer with her glorious voice and strength of will.

In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.

My Mortal Enemy is the eighth novel by American author Willa Cather.As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherwordly fulfillment. My Mortal Enemy is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.My Mortal Enemy is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness.

O Pioneers is a novel written by Willa Sibert Cather in 1903. In this book, Cather unfolds the story of Bergson, are Swedish-American immigrant in the farm country near the town of Hanover, Nebraska.Alexandra Bergson is the leading character of the story; she inherits the family farmland when her father dies. She devotes her life in making the farm an enterprise when other immigrant families are leaving the prairie.The story also revolves around the relationship between Alexandra and her family friend Carl Linstrum and Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.O Pioneers is divided into five parts.Alexandra's father is dying. His last wish is that his daughter runs the farm after he is gone. The story showcases the struggles of Alexandra and how she mortgages the farm to buy more land in the hope to become rich as a landowner.Although, Alexandra gets financial success but fails in her love life. Carl Linstrum leaves Alexandra and lives in a different city. After 16 years he makes a surprise visit to her. Lou and Oscar are married and they both hold their separate farms. Also, things started getting nasty between Emil, Alexandra's favorite youngest brother, and Marie Shabata. Later, Emil decides the best thing for him is to get away.

"Death Comes for the Archbishop" is a masterful work of historical fiction by Willa Cather. Set in the American Southwest in the mid-19th century, the novel tells the story of a young French priest who is sent to establish a Catholic diocese in a rugged and unfamiliar land. Through his encounters with the indigenous people and his fellow settlers, the priest comes to understand the complexities and beauty of the human spirit. With its vivid descriptions and deep insight into the human soul, "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is a timeless meditation on the meaning of faith, community, and the quest for spiritual fulfillment.

Myra Driscoll had it all--dresses, jewels, a riding horse, and a Steinway piano--until she met and fell in love with Oswald Henshawe, a man her uncle, John Driscoll, hated. Despite the threat of disinheritance by Driscoll, Myra married Oswald. Nellie Birdseye narrates the poignant journey through a failing marriage and a woman's painful struggle with the marriage paradox: how to reconcile youth's romantic exuberance with growing disillusionment, bitterness, and regret. A novelist and short-story writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather (1873-1947) is today widely regarded as one of the foremost American authors of the twentieth century. She spent her formative years in Nebraska, which at the time was a frontier territory. The pioneer spirit has influenced much of her writing; nevertheless, her departure from that world in My Mortal Enemy led to a mixed reception from critics and the general public. Although the novel was a commercial success, it sparked a heated controversy over whether Myra's "mortal enemy" was Oswald or Myra herself.

Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic-almost mythic-story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows-gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.

"Death Comes for the Archbishop" is the critically acclaimed novel of the settlement of the American Southwest by celebrated author Willa Cather. First published in 1927, it is widely regarded as one of the best American books of the 20th century and masterfully captures this pivotal time of America's westward expansion. The story is based on the real-life struggles of Catholic clergy members as they attempt to establish a regular diocese in the lawless and vast New Mexico Territory in the late 19th century. Cather's main characters, the French Bishop Jean Marie Latour and American vicar Joseph Vaillant, are based upon the real-life Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf. The fictional pair encounters many of the same dangers and obstacles as their rel-life counterparts as they bring the Roman Catholic Church and its politics to the native people of the desert of the Southwest. While many of the clergy members are good and honorable people dedicated to spreading the Word of God, others are greedy and corrupt, making Latour and Vaillant's work all the more difficult. Beautifully written with complex characters struggling to conquer a stunning and brutal land, "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is one of Cather's most accomplished and thoughtful works. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

‘A Lost Lady’ is Willa Cather’s brilliant depiction of the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the bleakness of frontier life. In it, socialite Marrian Forrester lives with her husband, the ageing industrial magnate Captain Forrester, in the small town of Sweet Water. To the young, adoring narrator Niel Herbert, she is both bewitching and beautiful. The very definition of a lady. But Marrian Forrester is not what she seems and sparked by the death of her husband; her social decline lays bare her contradictions to the town.Published in 1923, Cather’s revered novel is an elegy to the pioneer west. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald acknowledged its influence on his famous work ‘The Great Gatsby’ and the character of Daisy Buchanan in particular.Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer who won acclaim for her novels that captured the American pioneer experience. Her books include ‘O Pioneers!’ (1913), ‘The Song of the Lark’ (1915), ‘My Ántonia’ (1918) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) which was an instant critical success. In 1923, Cather gained widespread international recognition when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ‘One of Ours’, a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather was granted honorary degrees by Princeton, Berkeley and Yale and in 1931 she graced the cover of Time Magazine. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her a gold medal for fiction in 1944.

Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The novel is based on the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888), and partially chronicles the construction of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. The capture of the Southwest by the United States in the Mexican-American War is the catalyst for the plot."The Padre of Isleta", Anton Docher is identified as the character of Padre de Baca.Among the entities mentioned in the novel are Los Penitentes, a flagellant lay confraternity in Southern Colorado and New Mexico that still operates today. The novel was reprinted in the Modern Library series in 1931. It was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924-1944. It was also included on Time's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 and Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century and was chosen by the Western Writers of America to be the 7th-best "Western Novel" of the 20th century.James Paul Old of Valparaiso University uses Death Comes for the Archbishop as a literary example of the notion that religious faith is able to develop and maintain strong social bonds in nascent democratic political orders. He argues that even though Cather's early novels, such as My Ántonia, typically represent religious characters as closed-minded, her personal religious realignment at the time allowed her to alter her perspective and develop more positive religious characters, in this case Catholic ones. And while some of her contemporary critics found her out of step with the experiences of common people, later critics, such as Old, praised her for a "search for a basis of order and cultural stability beyond the confines of contemporary secular culture."Additionally, scholars note that Latour's character is not strictly placed within the male-female binary, but instead, as Jennifer A. Smith argues, "oscillates between norms of femininity and masculinity." In developing a theory that Cather had questioned her own gender in the 1920s, Patrick W. Shaw suggests that "fundamental double entendres" and "elaborate image clusters" throughout the novel support a reading of sexual disregularity and ambiguity. (wikipedia.org)