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Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your Attention

Our list of some of the best Willa Cather books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.

Willa Cather My Antonia 100th Anniversary Edition: Complete and Unabridged 1918 version with introduction, context, biography and analysis (2018)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionWilla Cather My Antonia 100th Anniversary Edition : Complete and Unabridged 1918 version with introduction, context, biography and analysisMy Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her “prairie trilogy” of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.
Author(s): Willa Cather

My Antonia (2015)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionMy Ántonia was enthusiastically received in 1918 when it was first published. It was considered a masterpiece and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. Today, it is considered as her first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting.
Author(s): Willa Cather

Oh Pioneers! (2015)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionCather invents a fictional town in early twentieth century Nebraska to tell the coming-of-age story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants. Alexandra Bergson, the eldest of the Bergson children doggedly persists during the worst of times to become a wealthy, independent landowner.
Author(s): Willa Cather

PRAIRIE TRILOGY O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Antonia (2018)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionThis volume collects the Prairie Trilogy by Willa Cather: O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). These works became both popular and critical successes in her time. Cather was celebrated by national critics such as H. L. Mencken for writing in plainspoken language about ordinary people.
Author(s): Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark (Vintage Classics) (1999)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionIn this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. Thea Kronborg, a minister’s daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world.
Author(s): Willa Cather

The Essential Willa Cather: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and One of Ours with an Introduction by Nicholas Tamblyn, and Illustrations by Katherine Eglund (2017)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionPresenting The Essential Willa Cather: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and One of Ours with an introduction by Nicholas Tamblyn, and illustrations by Katherine Eglund. This collection is part of The Essential Series by Golding Books.Much of Willa Cather’s writing evokes nostalgic memories of growing up on the American plains.
Author(s): Willa Cather, Nicholas Tamblyn , et al.

Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics) (1995)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionWilla Cather’s novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to a new world even as they clung to the artifacts and manners of one they left behind.In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home.
Author(s): Willa Cather

O Pioneers! (2019)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionComplete and unabridged paperback edition. is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918). Via Wikipedia.
Author(s): Willa Cather

Collected Stories (Vintage Classics) (1992)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionThe most complete collection available of Willa Cather’s remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death.
Author(s): Willa Cather

The Professor’s House (Vintage Classics) (1990)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionWilla Cather’s lyrical and bittersweet novel of a middle-aged man losing control of his life is a brilliant study in emotional dislocation and renewal. Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St.
Author(s): Willa Cather

A Lost Lady (Vintage Classics) (1990)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionA Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them. To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs.
Author(s): Willa Cather

My Ántonia (Dover Thrift Editions) (1994)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionMy Ántonia evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather’s childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather’s earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants.
Author(s): Willa Cather

The Troll Garden and Selected Stories (2019)

 Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your AttentionVirginia-born writer Willa Cather burst onto the American literary scene with this riveting collection of short stories, all loosely yoked together via the theme of the arts, artists, and creativity. ..
Author(s): Willa Cather

Best Willa Cather Books Worth Your Attention

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Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition

Author(s): Guy J. Reynolds
ID: 3033924, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, Year: 2021, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf

Complete Works of Willa Cather

Author(s): Cather, Willa
ID: 2667092, Publisher: Delphi Classics, Year: 2019, Size: 9 Mb, Format: epub

Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture

Author(s): Julie Olin-Ammentorp
ID: 2819174, Publisher: U of Nebraska Press, Year: 2019, Size: 13 Mb, Format: pdf

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