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The Song of the Lark is a novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915.It is her third novel to be published. The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers and develops her singing voice. Her story is told against the backdrop of the burgeoning American West in which she was born in a town along the rail line, of fast-growing Chicago ...
The novel was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction, with the judges stating the novel's prose vividly transports the reader to 1850s Scandinavia and the themes explored-including identify, faith, and race-are urgently relevant to our contemporary lives.
April Twilights is a 1903 collection of poems by Willa Cather. It was reedited by Cather in 1923 and 1933. [ 1 ] The poems were first published in many literary reviews, [ 2 ] often under pen names.
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
Benjamin Taylor has a thing for Willa Cather. This year, the 150th anniversary of her birth, he has written a passionate love letter to her in the form of a brief but illuminating biography.
An old tunnel in the basement is discovered and a group attempts to make a break through it. Amy decides to get to David by turning herself in, but is stopped by a group of zombie enthusiast survivalists, and John is captured instead. He is taken to the REPER command center in an asylum next to the hospital and discovers Bob Tennet running the ...
The Professor's House is a novel by American novelist Willa Cather.Published in 1925, the novel was written over several years. Cather first wrote the centerpiece, “Tom Outland's Story,” and then later wrote the two framing chapters “The Family” and “The Professor.” [1]
Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. [1] It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira's slaves.