Cather, Willa

Will Cather's life on the prairies of Nebraska form the basis for much of her greatest literary achievements. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for her novel, One of Ours.

Presents a collection of the works of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century author Willa Cather and includes excepts from "O Pioneers!," "One of Ours," "My Antonia," and others.

A collection of short stories by Willa Cather that discuss the conflict between East and West and the artistic temperament in America.

Presents the text of the 1927 novel about two priests, friends since their childhood in France, who set out to establish the new Roman Catholic diocese in the American Southwest; and includes explanatory notes, as well as a historical essay that traces the artistic and spiritual development that led to the novel's creation.

"A first publication of the ... writer's personal correspondences includes ... teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles with aging"-- Publishers description.

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl.