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New York, N.Y. : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press, 1992.
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This volume is an anthology of short stories and poetry written by American author Willa Cather (1873-1947). She achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. This book includes the short-story collections "Youth and the Bright Medusa," "Obscure Destinies," and "The Old Beauty and Others," the novellas "Alexander's Bridge" and "My Mortal Enemy," occasional pieces, critical essays, and Cather's only book of poetry.
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LibraryThing member susanbevans
My father gave me this book when I told him I was studying Cather in an American lit. class. It is a wonderful collection of her short stories, poems, and essays. My favorite story is "Neighbour Rosicky."
"So much stone and asphalt with nothing going on, so many empty windows. The emptiness was
"So much stone and asphalt with nothing going on, so many empty windows. The emptiness was
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intense... It struck young Rosicky that this was the trouble with big cities; they built you in from the earth itself, cemented you away from any contact with the ground. You lived in an unnatural world..." Show Less
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