Early novels and stories / Willa Cather.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Series:

Library of America ; 35.

The Library of America ; 35

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 1987

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1336 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by the Viking Press, [1987]

Summary:

The first of three volumes presenting the writings of Willa Cather includes her early book of stories and first four novels. The troll garden: Cather's first short story collection, originally published in 1905, depicts characters who seek the realm of beauty and imagination, but are confronted by the vulgarity and brutality of American society. O pioneers!: In Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson leads her family to success, but not without personal sacrifice. The song of the lark: Follows the life of Thea Kronberg from her childhood in 19th-century Colorado to her career as a renowned opera singer. My Antonia: The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant. One of ours: The son of a prosperous Nebraska farmer yearns to leave his prairie home.

Contents:

The troll garden

O pioneers!

The song of the lark

My Ántonia

One of ours.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1323-1336).

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimme Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0940450399

9780940450394

0521324866

9780521324861

OCLC:

13581680