# The Troll Garden

The Troll Garden was Cather's first collection of short stories. Four of these stories—"The Sculptor's Funeral," "A Death in the Desert," "A Wagner Matinee," and "Paul's Case"—were revised and included in Cather's next collection of short fiction Youth and the Bright Medusa, (1920). Warning: template has been deprecated.
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"We must not look at Goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits;
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?"
GOBLIN MARKET.
THE TROLL GARDEN
BY
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
A FAIRY PALACE, WITH A FAIRY GARDEN; ..... INSIDE THE TROLLS DWELL, ..... WORKING AT THEIR MAGIC FORGES, MAKING AND MAKING ALWAYS THINGS RARE AND STRANGE CHARLES KINGSLEY
NEW YORK McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. MCMV
Copyright, 1905, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. Published March, 1905
Copyright, 1904-05, by The S. S. McClure Co. Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright, 1904, by The Ridgway-Thayer Co.
[Front matter]
To
Isabelle McClung
CONTENTS
* PAGE
* FLAVIA AND HER ARTISTS ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* THE SCULPTOR'S FUNERAL ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................55
* THE GARDEN LODGE ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................85
* "A DEATH IN THE DESERT" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................111
* THE MARRIAGE OF PHÆDRA ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................155
* A WAGNER MATINEE ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................193
* PAUL'S CASE ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................211
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