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Loading... A Wagner Matinee (edition 2010)by Willa Cather
Work InformationA Wagner Matinée [short story] by Willa Cather
None No current Talk conversations about this book.  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |   What I like about Cather's is its freshness. This straightforward story is about a woman, who has been living on a farm in rural America for more than 30 years, and visits the a concert with her nephew or cousin in a big city. While the young man fears how she might like the music by Wagner, she is moved to tears, and overcome by emotion as the concert ends. The story shows part of the tragedy of (im-) migrants who once lived in cultured centres, moving to rural outposts and being cut off from the cultural life in the cities. (  ) edwinbcn | Oct 3, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
Is contained inEarly Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Antonia / One of Ours by Willa Cather (indirect) Willa Cather - The Library of America Set Complete in 3 Volumes (1. Early Novels & Stories; 2. Stories, Poems and Other Writings; and 3. Later Novels) by Willa Cather (indirect) Willa Cather Collected Short Fiction 1892 1912 by Willa Cather (indirect) The Troll Garden / Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather (indirect) Willa Cather - A Collection of Stories, & The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather (indirect) Willa Cather's Collected Works: My Ántonia, Song of the Lark, One of Ours, O Pioneers, The Profile, And More! by Willa Cather (indirect) Stories, Poems, and Other Writings by Willa Cather (indirect) Has as a student's study guide
I received one morning a letter, written in pale ink on glassy, blue-lined note-paper, and bearing the postmark of a little Nebraska village. This communication, worn and rubbed, looking as if it had been carried for some days in a coat pocket that was none too clean, was from my uncle Howard, and informed me that his wife had been left a small legacy by a bachelor relative, and that it would be necessary for her to go to Boston to attend to the settling of the estate. He requested me to meet her at the station and render her whatever services might be necessary. On examining the date indicated as that of her arrival, I found it to be no later than tomorrow. He had characteristically delayed writing until, had I been away from home for a day, I must have missed my aunt altogether. No library descriptions found. |
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What an amazing story. It incorporates all those wonderful traits that I have come to associate with Willa Cather: the beautiful language, the understanding of the difficult life of the plains, the ebb and flow of the music of the soul; and it delivers a strong message built around the contrasts of the city cultures and the farming realities.
I want to say much more, but I don’t want to give away the story for anyone who has not read it. If you love Cather, you will love this; if you do not know Cather, I cannot think of a better way to get an introduction.
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