Willa Cather

The story of Myra Henshawe, a worldly woman who gives up a fortune to marry as she chooses, and then finds her romantic gesture has not brought her happiness.

The first of three volumes presenting the writings of Willa Cather includes her early book of stories and first four novels. The troll garden: Cather's first short story collection, originally published in 1905, depicts characters who seek the realm of beauty and imagination, but are confronted by the vulgarity and brutality of American society. O pioneers!: In Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson leads...

The protagonists of three stories, set in the American West, struggle to oversome life's vicissitudes with humor and patience.

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...

Collection of ten stories including such works as "A Wagner Matinee, " "Paul's Case, " "The Bohemian Girl, " and "Neighbor Rosicky."