Five Stories
by Willa Cather 
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Five short stories by Willa from her other books: Neighbor Rosicky, The Best Years, Paul's Case, The Enchanted Bluff, Tom Outland's Story. I LOVED all of these, with the possible exception of Paul's Case. Willa Cather was recommended by Wallace Stegner. She can really evoke a strong sense of place. Great western stories about open space, exploration, rootlessness, rootedness, community and character. Neighbor Rosicky was probably my favorite, a great story about Czech immigrant farmers and how to really love people.
Classic American short stories.
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Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and teacher while beginning her writing career. In 1906, show more Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1956
- People/Characters
- Evangeline Knightly; Lesley Ferguesson; Anton Rosicky
- Important places
- MacAlpin, Nebraska, USA; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 809 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
- LCC
- PZ3 .C2858 .F — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Languages
- English
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- 2
- ASINs
- 4
