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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 with family, career, even the house that reflects his success. Within this story is another, of St. Peters friend Tom Outland, whose brief but adventurous life still shadows those he loved. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) tells the story of the first bishop of New Mexico in a series of tableaux modeled on the mediev

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Author

Willa Cather; Sharon O'Brien

Publisher

New York, N.Y.: Library of America: Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780940450523

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.18 / 5 (120 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14