Coming, Aphrodite! and other stories
By: Willa Cather ; edited and with notes by Margaret Anne O'Connor ; with an introduction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff.
Contributors: O'Connor, Margaret Anne.
Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Description: Best known for the distinctive portraits of the people and land of the American West in her prairie novels, Willa Cather is one of the greatest American writers of this century. The fourteen short stories in this richly diverse collection, along with an exemplary introduction by author Cynthia Griffin Wolff, allow for a more complex view of Cather. As a writer she was intrigued by nature's ruthlessness and mankind's limitless potential for brutality and had a passion for the beauty of art.

Ranging from the simplicity of Cather's first published story, "Peter" (1892), to the extraordinary eroticism of "Coming, Aphrodite!" (1920), this Twentieth-Century Classics collection is an engaging and triumphant testament to the genius of an American literary icon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.