The Old Beauty and Others
by Willa Cather 
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The old beauty tells the story of a woman's life. The best years tells the story of a young Nebraskan school teacher. Before breakfast tells of a man who once a year escapes from his success to stay on a remote Canadian island.Tags
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Interesting stories and well-crafted writing.
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Lesley gave a sigh of relief and thought how fortunate it is that circumstances do sometimes make up our mind for us.
She opened her robe, a grey thing lined with white. Her bathing suit was pink; If a clam stood upright and graciously opened its shell, it would look like that.
And, in the story The Best Years, one extended paragraph about "dreamy" Hector that is so lovely but that is too long to type out here.
A couple of examples:
Lesley gave a sigh of relief and thought how fortunate it is that circumstances do sometimes make up our mind for us.
She opened her robe, a grey thing lined with white. Her bathing suit was pink; If a clam stood upright and graciously opened its shell, it would look like that.
And, in the story The Best Years, one extended paragraph about "dreamy" Hector that is so lovely but that is too long to type out here.
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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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