Youth and the Bright Medusa

Youth and the Bright Medusa

by Willa Cather
Youth and the Bright Medusa

Youth and the Bright Medusa

by Willa Cather

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Overview

Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873– April 24, 1947) was an American author who 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. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, then at age 33 she moved to New York where she lived for the rest of her life.

“Youth and the Bright Medusa” is a collection of short stories is by Willa Cather, published in 1920. Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden.

The collection contains the following stories:

"Coming, Aphrodite!"
"The Diamond Mine"
"A Gold Slipper"
"Scandal"
"Paul's Case"
"A Wagner Matinee"
"The Sculptor's Funeral"
"A Death in the Desert"
(wikipedia.org)


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781622362394
Publisher: Greatest Books Publisher
Publication date: 03/31/2012
Pages: 303
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Mark J. Madigan is a professor of English at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. He is the author of many articles on Willa Cather and the editor of three volumes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
 
Frederick M. Link and Charles W. Mignon are both professors emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and textual editors of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition series.
 
Judith Boss is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Omaha and teaches computer applications in English. She has digitized several American literature texts for Project Gutenberg and other digital libraries and repositories.

Kari A. Ronning is a research associate professor of English, assistant editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition series, and codirector of the Willa Cather Journalism project at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
 
 

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


Preface

Youth and the Bright Medusa

Acknowledgments

Historical Apparatus:

Historical Essay

Illustrations

Explanatory Notes

Textual Apparatus:

Textual Essay

Emendations

Notes on Emendations

Table of Rejected Substantives

Word Division

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