About This Book
Willa Cather was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, creating in indelible novels and stories a rich panorama of place and experience among pioneers and farmers, artists and youthful lovers, immigrants and their striving children. Here, for the first time, the definitve three-volume Library of America edition of her works is available in a collector''s boxed set, gathering all of her novels, novellas, and story collections; fourteen additional stories uncollected during her lifetime; and a selection of essays, poems, and other writings.
Included are:
Early Novels and Stories | 1,336 pages
The Troll Garden (short stories) • O Pioneers! • The Song of the Lark •
My Ántonia • One of Ours
Later Novels | 988 pages
A Lost Lady • The Professor''s House • Death Comes for the Archbishop •
Shadows on the Rock • Lucy Gayheart • Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Stories, Poems, and Other Writings | 1,039 pages
Youth and the Bright Medusa (stories) • Obscure Destinies (stories) • The Old Beauty and Others (stories) • Alexander''s Bridge • My Mortal Enemy • occasional pieces • critical essays• April Twilights and Other Poems
LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
