Lucy Gayheart

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679728887

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Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather Pdf

In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia performs crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction: the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young woman who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art. At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life only to turn back to seize it one last time. Out of their doomed love affair—and Lucy's fatal estrangement from her origins—Willa Cather creates a novel that is as achingly lovely as a Schubert sonata.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547186595

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Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lucy Gayheart" by Willa Cather. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803239106

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Cather Studies by Cather Studies Pdf

Volume 2 of Cather Studies demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather?s work for the informed reader or the specialized student.This volume includes major essays on Cather's response to the cultural pessimism of Oswald Spengler, her affinities to Alphonse Daudet, and aspects of her art in My Antonia, The Professor's House, and Shadows on the Rock.

Author : Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496203243

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Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture by Julie Olin-Ammentorp Pdf

Edith Wharton and Willa Cather wrote many of the most enduring American novels from the first half of the twentieth century, including Wharton’s The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, and Cather’s O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Yet despite their perennial popularity and their status as major American novelists, Wharton (1862–1937) and Cather (1873–1947) have rarely been studied together. Indeed, critics and scholars seem to have conspired to keep them at a distance: Wharton is seen as “our literary aristocrat,” an author who chronicles the lives of the East Coast, Europe-bound elite, while Cather is considered a prairie populist who describes the lives of rugged western pioneers. These depictions, though partially valid, nonetheless rely on oversimplifications and neglect the striking and important ways the works of these two authors intersect. The first comparative study of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather in thirty years, this book combines biographical, historical, and literary analyses with a focus on place and aesthetics to reveal Wharton’s and Cather’s parallel experiences of dislocation, their relationship to each other as writers, and the profound similarities in their theories of fiction. Julie Olin-Ammentorp provides a new assessment of the affinities between Wharton and Cather by exploring the importance of literary and geographic place in their lives and works, including the role of New York City, the American West, France, and travel. In doing so she reveals the two authors’ shared concern about the culture of place and the place of culture in the United States.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Farm life
ISBN : 9781442934375

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One of Ours by Willa Cather Pdf

Author : James Woodress
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803297084

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Willa Cather by James Woodress Pdf

Drawing on letters, interviews, speeches, and reminiscences, looks at the life and career of the American novelist.

Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466828858

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Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid Pdf

The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--available now in an e-book edition. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486849706

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The Professor's House by Willa Cather Pdf

This bittersweet tale about a professor's desire to stay in his old study and cling to what used to be on the eve of moving into a new house sparks deep introspection in a story that explores a mid-life crisis and family life in a 1920s Midwestern college town.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547405924

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Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather Pdf

Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira's slaves.

Author : Susan J. Rosowski
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803289863

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The Voyage Perilous by Susan J. Rosowski Pdf

They Voyage Perilousis the first extended interpretation of Willa Cather's writing within the literary tradition of romanticism. Although she partook of the familiar subjects and themes of the Wordsworthian school of romanticism, Cather was not nearly so concerned with what we see as how we see. Her intensely individual perspective, more creatively romantic than has been previously recognized, gave her work its own kind of elegant form. ø Susan J. Rosowski argues that Willa Cather early took up the romantic challenge to vindicate imaginative thought in a world threatened by materialism, then pursued it with remarkable consistency throughout her career. The early essays and stories set out the terms of this life-long commitment. In the early novels Cather celebrates imaginative possibilities; in the middle ones she present increasingly desperate circumstances, asking what is left when the imagination is eclipsed by commercial values; in the late novels she writes in a Gothic mode, the dark counterspirit to optimistic romanticism. ø The book is organized chronologically, with a chapter devoted to each novel. The chapters can be read independently or as part of a unified argument providing a larger picture.

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCSC:32106009272896

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Sixteen Modern American Authors by Jackson R. Bryer Pdf

Praise for the earlier edition: "Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form--Sixteenth Modern American Authors--it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to be kept in the forefront of the bibliographical compartment of their brains."--American Studies

Author : Joseph R. Urgo
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025206481X

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Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration by Joseph R. Urgo Pdf

"In a land where there is constant migration, can there be a "homeland"? In the United States, migration is initially experienced as immigration, but the process never achieves closure. Migration continues as transience - restless, unsettled movement across social and economic classes, states, and national borders. In this nuanced study grounded in literature, history, and popular culture, Joseph Urgo demonstrates that American culture and our sense of national identity are permeated by unrelenting, incessant, and psychic mobility across spatial, historical, and imaginative planes of existence." "There is no better example of a writer reflecting on this migratory consciousness than Willa Cather. At home in numerous locations - Nebraska, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maine, and Canada - Cather infused her novels with the cultural vitality that is a consequence of transience. By locating transience at the center of his conception of our national culture, Urgo redefines the mythos of American national identity and global empire. He concludes with an analysis of a potential "New World Order" in which migration replaces homeland as the foundation of world power."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9786057566096

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A Lost Lady by Willa Cather Pdf

A Lost Lady is a novel by American author Willa Cather, first published in 1923. It centers on Marian Forrester, her husband Captain Daniel Forrester, and their lives in the small western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad. However, it is mostly told from the perspective of a young man named Niel Herbert, as he observes the decline of both Marian and the West itself, as it shifts from a place of pioneering spirit to one of corporate exploitation. Exploring themes of social class, money, and the march of progress, A Lost Lady was praised for its vivid use of symbolism and setting, and is considered to be a major influence on the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It has been adapted to film twice, with a film adaptation being released in 1924, followed by a looser adaptation in 1934, starring Barbara Stanwyck. A Lost Lady begins in the small railroad town of Sweet Water, on the undeveloped Western plains. The most prominent family in the town is the Forresters, and Marian Forrester is known for her hospitality and kindness. The railroad executives frequently stop by her house and enjoy the food and comfort she offers while there on business. A young boy, Niel Herbert, frequently plays on the Forrester estate with his friend. One day, an older boy named Ivy Peters arrives, and shoots a woodpecker out of a tree. He then blinds the bird and laughs as it flies around helplessly. Niel pities the bird and tries to climb the tree to put it out of its misery, but while climbing he slips, and breaks his arm in the fall, as well as knocking himself unconscious. Ivy takes him to the Forrester house where Marian looks after him. When Niel wakes up, he's amazed by the nice house and how sweet Marian smells. He doesn't't see her much after that, but several years later he and his uncle, Judge Pommeroy, are invited to the Forrester house for dinner. There he meets Ellinger, who he will later learn is Mrs. Forrester's lover, and Constance, a young girl his age.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015000976838

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Willa Cather: Later Novels (LOA #49) by Willa Cather Pdf

Tells the stories of a frontier woman, a disillusioned professor, New Mexico's first bishop, early life in Quebec, an ambitious artist, and a Southern slaveowner.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041824151

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Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather Pdf

"Shadows on the Rock" is a historical novel written by the American author Willa Cather. The book was published in 1931 and is set in the 17th century in colonial New France, specifically in Quebec City. The novel focuses on the lives of the early French settlers and the challenges they faced while establishing a life in the rugged wilderness of North America. The central character is Cécile Auclair, a young girl who, with her father, makes the difficult journey from France to Quebec to join her mother. The novel provides a vivid portrayal of daily life, relationships, and the interactions between the French settlers and the indigenous people of the region. "Shadows on the Rock" is known for its rich historical detail and evocative descriptions of the landscape and characters. Willa Cather's storytelling captures the enduring spirit and resilience of the early settlers in North America. The novel is celebrated for its historical accuracy and its exploration of the human experience in a challenging and often harsh environment.