Cather, Willa

Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a midwestern American's journey to the front of World War I.

Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.

The story of a French priest who goes to New Mexico and, with another priest, wins the Southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe.

Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a midwestern American's journey to the front of World War I.