| The Bohemian Girl Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061773786 ISBN-13: 9780061773785 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Uprooted from a well-ordered existence in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. Her great love for the beauty of the open grassland and her abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors--the dreamers and builders--inspired and enlivened her celebrated fiction. Collected here are short works from the early portion of Cather's career--including the title story, "The Sculptor's Funeral," and "The Enchanted Bluff"--each tale indelibly marked by the themes and landscapes she would explore throughout the remainder of her writing life and in classic works such as "O Pioneers!" and "My Antonia." Bonus story |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Harper Perennial Classic Stories |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.04" W x 7.08" (0.36 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. This collection includes work from the early part of Cather′s career and clearly marks themes and landscapes that she would detail and explore for the remainder of her life. Alongside THE BOHEMIAN GIRL, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the "Summer of the Short Story." A story from Lydia Peelle′s forthcoming collection, REASONS FOR AND ADVANTAGES OF BREATHING, will be printed at the back of this volume. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cather, Willa: - Willa Cather (1873-1947) was born in Virginia and raised on the Nebraska prairie. She worked as a newspaper writer, teacher, and managing editor of McClure's magazine. In addition to My Ántonia, her books include O Pioneers! (1913) and The Professor's House. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours. |