Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, & Other Writings (LOA #57): Alexander's Bridge / My Mortal Enemy / Youth and the Bright Medusa / Obscure Destinies / The Old Beauty and Others / other writings

Willa Cather, one of the great American novelists of the 20th century, also wrote some of America’s best short fiction. From her haunting first story, “Peter,” the tale of a Bohemian immigrant who brought his violin to the raw western frontier, to her posthumously published “The Best Years,” the stories included here span the fifty years of Cather’s writing life. In these tales of pioneers and farmers, artists and youthful lovers, immigrants and their striving children, she creates both a n...