Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

Overview

Introduction by A. S. Byatt

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504083737
Publisher:	Open Road Media
Publication date:	01/01/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	281
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.

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

Introduction
Note on the Text
Selected Reading
Chronology
PROLOGUE: AT ROME
BOOK II: MISSIONARY JOURNEYS
BOOK III: THE MASS AT ACOMA
BOOK IV: SNAKE ROOT
BOOK V: PADRE MARTINEZ
BOOK VI: DOÑA ISABELLA
BOOK VII: THE GREAT DIOCESE
BOOK VIII: GOLD UNDER PIKE'S PEAK
BOOK IX: DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP

What People are Saying About This

A. S. Byatt

What intrigues me about [Cather] is the intelligence with which she combines her formidable learning in European art and literature with her 'new' uniformed or formless American subjects, the settlers and pioneers with their unrecorded lives and their diverse heritages.

Editorial Reviews

A truly remarkable book ... Soaked through and through with atmosphere ... From the riches of her imagination and sympathy Miss Cather has distilled a very rare piece of literature. It stands out, from the very resistance it opposes to classification.” —The New York Times

 "The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the uiverse around us.” —Rebecca West

 “[Cather’s] descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishop’s cathedral. It is an art of ‘making,’ of clear depiction—of separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up.... Cather’s composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement.” —A. S. Byatt

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