The professor's house / Willa Cather ; historical essay by James Woodress ; explanatory notes by James Woodress with Kari A. Ronning ; textual editing by Frederick M. Link.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Contributor:

Woodress, James Leslie.

Ronning, Kari, 1949-

Link, Frederick M.

Series:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. 1992 Works.

Willa Cather scholarly edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teacher-student relationships--Fiction.

Teacher-student relationships.

College teachers--Fiction.

College teachers.

Middle-aged men--Fiction.

Middle-aged men.

Midlife crisis--Fiction.

Midlife crisis.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Frame stories.

Physical Description:

xii, 575 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Summary:

The Professor's House -- Willa Cather's seventh novel -- was published in 1925, when she was fifty-two. At the time she was an author with a worldwide reputation, having won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours. Reaching the top of her profession had produced a letdown, and she later wrote that around the time she won the Pulitzer she had felt that for her the world had broken in two. The situation of the professor in this novel reflects the troubled time in Cather's own life. Behind this story of Godfrey St. Peter, a man who, despite his successes, has at mid-career experienced a profound disappointment with life, is the fierce story of how he decides to continue living despite his disappointment. And sandwiched between St. Peter's stories is the thrilling tale of his one brilliant student, Tom Outland, who discovers the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde. Profound and disturbing, The Professor's House has taken its place as one of its author's most important works.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0803214286

OCLC:

44777319