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Two French missionaries -- Jean Marie Latour and Joseph Vaillant -- make their way into the harsh, unexplored, mountainous region of New Mexico in the hope of revivifying there the religion that had been brought by Spanish priests and then left to decay in the hand of an insubordinate and materialistic clergy.Father Latour, first bishop of the diocese, knew how to win the confidence of the Indians and to become a father of the Indians and to become a father indeed to the Mexicans.Slowly and firmly he gained control of the padres of the region, gradually replacing the slothful with men stamped by his own ardor. The cathedral that he built in Santa Fe, using the stones of the region so that it might fit into its surroundings, was the crown of his missionary labor, in which he had succeeded in harmonizing two elements: the Catholic religion and the New Mexican way of life.

The book is written in the third person, but is mostly written from the perspective of Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester, for whom he feels very deeply, and also of the West itself from the idealized age of noble pioneers to the age of capitalist exploitation.

The Finest family in Sweet Water, The Forresters are known for their gatherings, and Mrs. Forrester, to be an enchanting hostess. Neil 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.

These seven stories by Willa Cather, edited by Patricia T.O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman for Rushwater Press, arepublished here under the title Tales of Town & Country. Allbut one first appeared in periodicals.';A Death in the Desert' originally appeared in Scribner'sMagazine, January 1903.';The Bohemian Girl' was first published McClure's Magazine,August 1912.';A Gold Slipper' originally appeared in Harper's MonthlyMagazine, January 1917.';On the Divide' was first printed in Overland Monthly,January 1896.';Flavia and Her Artists' originally appeared in a collectionof Cather's stories, The Troll Garden, published inMarch 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co.';The Bookkeeper's Wife' first appeared in The Centuryllustrated Monthly Magazine, May 1916.';Her Boss' was first published in October 1919 in boththe American and the British editions of the magazineSmart Set. The version included here is from the Americanedition.

April Twilights is Bernice Slote's landmark edition of Cather's first book, a collection of Willa Cather's poems with an introduction by Slote and a new introduction by Robert Thacker that provides new insights into Cather and her poetry.

A powerful novel of the American Midwest by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather, with an afterword by Bridget Bennett.

Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and moved to Nebraska, with its wide open plains and immigrant farming communities, at the age of nine. This landscape would deeply affect her later writing. She attended university and became a journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh, and then a magazine editor in New York. Her first major novel, O Pioneers!, appeared in 1913 and was followed by two more in her prairie trilogy, The Song of the Lark and My ¿ntonia, as well as her masterpiece Death Comes for the Archbishop. She lived with the editor Edith Lewis for thirty-nine years until her death in 1947.

A portrait of an enduring friendship, from one of America's most celebrated novelists. 'Quite simply a masterpiece' Daily Telegraph Two priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexico to reinvigorate Catholicism among the locals, knowing little of the challenges that await them.

Willa Cather's best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant Antonia Shimerda.

The second novel in Willa Cather's Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life. 'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates Thea Kronberg, gifted with a beautiful voice, defies her humble beginnings in Colorado and finds success far from her small hometown.

Willa Cather's first Great Plains novel, is at once a love letter to Nebraska and the tale of a remarkable heroine who remains resilient in the face of tragedy. 'She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers' Observer Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm when her father dies early.

Alexandra Bergson anländer till den blåsiga prärien i Nebraska. Här lever hon tillsammans med de andra nybyggarna, och skapar med tiden en välmående gård. Men vägen till framgång är inte enkel för en ung kvinna. Hennes resa är fylld av förlust och sorg, och i slutändan riskerar den hängivenhet hon har till landskapet att kosta henne det största av allt – kärleken. "Hell, Banbrytare!" är den första romanen av Willa Cather, och oftast sedd som hennes främsta verk. Det är en levande skildring av ett förändrande landskap, och om de människor som bosatte sig där och bidrog till förändringen.Willa Cather (1873-1947) var en amerikansk författare. Hon växte upp i Nebraska med en far som var nybyggare. Hennes romaner skildrar främst nybyggarna på Nebraskas prärie, oftast med fokus på kvinnorna.

Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier.Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life.In One of Ours Willa Cather explores the destiny of a grandchild of the pioneers, a young Nebraskan whose yearnings impel him toward a frontier bloodier and more distant than the one that vanished before his birth. In doing so, she creates a canny and extraordinarily vital portrait of an American psyche at once skeptical and romantic, restless and heroic.BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt fromThe Selected Letters of Willa Cather.

WillaCather's lyrical andbittersweet novel of a middle-aged man losing control of his lifeis a brilliant study in emotional dislocation and renewal. Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life. The Professor's House combines a delightful grasp of the social and domestic rituals of a Midwestern university town in the 1920s with profound spiritual and psychological introspection.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt fromThe Selected Letters of Willa Cather.