Early novels and stories
By: Willa Cather.
Series: The Library of America
Publisher: Literary Classics of the U.S.; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1336
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Other titles: Troll garden.; O pioneers!; Song of the lark.; My Antonia.; One of ours.
Description: The first of three volumes presenting the writings of Willa Cather includes her early book of stories and first four novels. The troll garden: Cather's first short story collection, originally published in 1905, depicts characters who seek the realm of beauty and imagination, but are confronted by the vulgarity and brutality of American society. O pioneers!: In Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson leads her family to success, but not without personal sacrifice. The song of the lark: Follows the life of Thea Kronberg from her childhood in 19th-century Colorado to her career as a renowned opera singer. My Antonia: The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant. One of ours: The son of a prosperous Nebraska farmer yearns to leave his prairie home.
Table of contents: title: The troll garden; title: O pioneers!; title: The song of the lark; title: My Antonia; title: One of ours.