A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays;With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken

by Willa Cather, H L Mencken (Other)

Overview

This vintage book contains short stories, essays, articles and others writings by American author Willa Cather. Contents include: "On The Divide", "Eric Hermannson's Soul", "The Sentimentality Of William Tavener", "The Namesake", "The Enchanted Bluff", "The Joy Of Nelly Deane", "The Bohemian Girl", "Consequences", "The Bookkeeper's Wife", etc. A fantastic collection of assorted writing by a Pulitzer Prize winner worthy of addition on any bookshelf. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. Other notable works by this author include: "O Pioneers!" (1913), "The Song of the Lark" (1915), and "My Ántonia" (1918). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from "Willa Cather - Written For The Borzoi, 1920" by H. L. Mencken.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781528716154
Publisher:	Read & Co. Books
Publication date:	06/04/2020
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Wilella Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947) is an eminent author from the United States. She is perhaps best known for her depictions of U.S. life in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Other Books of Willa Cather:
• Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
• Pioneers! (1913)
• My Ántonia (1918)
• One of Ours (1923)
• Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
• The Song of the Lark (1915)
• The Professor's House (1925)
• The Troll Garden and Selected Stories (1905)
• Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920)
• Not Under Forty (1936)

Date of Birth:

December 7, 1873

Date of Death:

April 27, 1947

Place of Birth:

Winchester, Virginia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., University of Nebraska, 1895

Table of Contents

About Author:

Part I

Stories

Peter

On the Divide

Eric Hermannson’s Soul

The Sentimentality of William Tavener

The Namesake

The Enchanted Bluff

The Joy of Nelly Deane

The Bohemian Girl

Consequences

The Bookkeeper’s Wife

Ardessa

Her Boss

Part II

Reviews and Essays

Mark Twain

William Dean Howells

Edgar Allan Poe

Walt Whitman

Henry James

Harold Frederic

Kate Chopin

Stephen Crane

Frank Norris

When I Knew Stephen Crane

On the Art of Fiction