Willa Cather: Later Novels (loa #49) - A Lost Lady / The Professors House / Death Comes for the Ar / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy Gayheart / Sapphira and the Sla (Cather Willa)(Paperback / softback)

This Library of America volume collects six novels by Willa Cather, who is among the most accomplished American writers of the twentieth century. Their formal perfection and expansiveness of feeling are an expression of Cathers dedication both to art and to the open spaces of America. A Lost Lady (1923) exemplifies her principle of conciseness. It concerns a woman of uncommon loveliness and grace who lends an aura of sophistication to a frontier town, and explores the hidden passions and desires that confine those who idealize her. The recurrent conflict in Cathers work between frontier culture and an encroaching commercialism is nowhere more powerfully articulated. The Professors House (1925) encapsulates a story within a story. In the framing narrative, Professor St. Peter, a prizewinning historian of the early Spanish explorers, finds himself disillusioned
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