Collected stories / Willa Cather.
Material type: TextSeries: Vintage classicsPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1992.Edition: 1st edDescription: 493 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0679736484 (pbk.) :
- 9780679736486 (pbk.)
- Short stories
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Cather, Willa | Available | 33111005688433 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together allthestories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumescompiled after her death.
These nineteen storiesresonate withallthe great themes that Cather staked out like tracts of fertile land- the plight of people hungry for beauty in a country that has no room for it; the mysterious arc of human lives; and the waysthe American frontier transformed the strangers who came to it, turning them imperceptibly into Americans. In these fictions, Cather displays her vast moral vision, her unerring sense of place, and her ability to find the one detail or episode that makes a closed life open wide in a single exhilarating moment.
The Troll Garden (1905): Flavia and her artists -- The garden lodge -- The marriage of Phaedra -- Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920): 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 (1932): Neighbour Rosicky -- Old Mrs. Harris -- Two friends -- The Old Beauty and Others (1948): The old beauty -- The best years -- Before breakfast -- Five Stories (1956): The enchanted bluff -- Tom Outland's story -- Willa Cather's unfinished Avignon story, an article by George N. Kates.