Results for "Cather, Willa"

From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. With a new introduction by Claire Messud.In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apo... Read More about Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)

For the 150th anniversary of Willa Cather's birth, and for the first time in Penguin Classics, her quietly beautiful novel of one man's life as he encounters the harsh landscape of the New Mexico desert and the people who inhabit it, with an introduction by National Book Award finalist Kali Faj... Read More about Death Comes for the Archbishop

In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. • This 100th Anniversary Edition... Read More about My Antonia: Introduction by Jane Smiley (Vintage Classics)

Willa Cather's My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with th... Read More about My Ántonia (The Great Plains Trilogy)

One of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century, Willa Cather’s heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman’s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains.Through Jim Burden’s affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, the free-spirited Ántonia Shimerda,... Read More about My Antonia

The novel that first made Willa Cather famous—a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary womanOne of America’s greatest writers, Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel—the first of her books set on the Nebraska... Read More about O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics)