Novels & Stories

Willa Cather: Early Novels and Stories
The Troll Garden (stories) | O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark | My Ántonia | One of Ours. Edited by Sharon O'Brien
"Willa Cather's early work has been assembled in another of the glorious Library of America volumes, this one beautifully edited and annotated by Sharon O'Brien…. Cather's writing, strong, sensitive, unmannered, crystal clear, is a pleasure to read, or to reread." — Los Angeles Times
"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her works the Nebraska frontier of her youth. Set on the vast northern Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow, the stories and novels in this Library of America volume partake of an impressive physical space and a uniquely American ethnic. Panoramas of lonely prairie and open sky reflect the heroic aspirations and stoicism of her characters and the rebelliousness of their spirit.
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