Cather, Willa 1873-1947
Overview
| Works: | 2,936 works in 9,391 publications in 25 languages and 318,543 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Domestic fiction Historical fiction History Short stories Domestic fiction Psychological fiction Biographies Biography Novels |
| Subject Headings: | Novelists, American |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Other, Author of introduction, Creator, Signer, Dedicatee, Bibliographic antecedent, Illustrator, Compiler, Lyricist |
| Classifications: | PS3505.A87, 813.52 |
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Most widely held works about
Willa Cather
- Willa Cather by Harold Bloom( Book )
- Willa Cather by Philip L Gerber( Book )
- The stuff of our forebears : Willa Cather's Southern heritage by Joyce McDonald( )
- On the divide : the many lives of Willa Cather by David H Porter( )
- Willa Cather : the emerging voice by Sharon O'Brien( Book )
- Henry James and queer modernity by Eric L Haralson( )
- Willa Cather : a critical biography by E. K Brown( Book )
- Willa Cather, queering America by Marilee Lindemann( )
- Cather, canon, and the politics of reading by Deborah Carlin( )
- Pioneers & caretakers : a study of 9 American women novelists by Louis Auchincloss( Book )
- Willa Cather and material culture : real-world writing, writing the real world by Janis P Stout( )
- Willa Cather by Dorothy Bendon Van Ghent( Book )
- Willa Cather and modern cultures by Cather Studies( )
- Axes : Willa Cather and William Faulkner by Merrill Maguire Skaggs( )
- Willa Cather and the politics of criticism by Joan Ross Acocella( Book )
- The American novel, 1789-1939 by Carl Van Doren( Book )
- Willa, the life of Willa Cather by Phyllis C Robinson( Book )
- Willa Cather's ecological imagination by Susan J Rosowski( )
- Cather studies( )
- Willa Cather and her critics by James Schroeter( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Willa Cather
My Ántonia by
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753 editions published between 1918 and 2019 in 18 languages and held by 21,387 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl
753 editions published between 1918 and 2019 in 18 languages and held by 21,387 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl
O pioneers! by
Willa Cather(
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483 editions published between 1913 and 2019 in 10 languages and held by 17,140 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of the Bergson family and their friends and neighbors. Describes the pioneers' struggle for survival in the barren, underdeveloped Nebraska tableland
483 editions published between 1913 and 2019 in 10 languages and held by 17,140 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of the Bergson family and their friends and neighbors. Describes the pioneers' struggle for survival in the barren, underdeveloped Nebraska tableland
The song of the lark by
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271 editions published between 1915 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 10,763 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Born into poverty in a small desert town in the American Midwest, Thea Kronborg is one of seven children. But Thea is exceptional, a fact recognized by a discerning few, including Ray Kennedy, who longs to marry her but whose fate it is to set her free. With her rugged will and pioneer spirit, Thea carves her way from Moonstone, Colorado to Chicago, from Dresden to New York, culminating in a triumphant debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Thea has become a great singer, but she also learns that as a true artist, she must make the most bitter sacrifices of all
271 editions published between 1915 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 10,763 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Born into poverty in a small desert town in the American Midwest, Thea Kronborg is one of seven children. But Thea is exceptional, a fact recognized by a discerning few, including Ray Kennedy, who longs to marry her but whose fate it is to set her free. With her rugged will and pioneer spirit, Thea carves her way from Moonstone, Colorado to Chicago, from Dresden to New York, culminating in a triumphant debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Thea has become a great singer, but she also learns that as a true artist, she must make the most bitter sacrifices of all
Death comes for the archbishop by
Willa Cather(
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409 editions published between 1926 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 10,129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a Friench priest who goes to New Mexico and with another priest win the Southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe
409 editions published between 1926 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 10,129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a Friench priest who goes to New Mexico and with another priest win the Southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe
A lost lady by
Willa Cather(
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267 editions published between 1923 and 2019 in 8 languages and held by 5,440 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Written from the perspective of a male narrator, Willa Cather's classic novel is an American version of "Madame Bovary". It is a portrait of a talented woman trapped in the conventions and economic restraints of a marriage. It is the story of a woman who defies expectations, and whose personal changes coincide with the transforming ordinary and gifted woman who is stifled by marriage."--Ingram
267 editions published between 1923 and 2019 in 8 languages and held by 5,440 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Written from the perspective of a male narrator, Willa Cather's classic novel is an American version of "Madame Bovary". It is a portrait of a talented woman trapped in the conventions and economic restraints of a marriage. It is the story of a woman who defies expectations, and whose personal changes coincide with the transforming ordinary and gifted woman who is stifled by marriage."--Ingram
One of ours by
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212 editions published between 1922 and 2019 in 6 languages and held by 4,965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a midwestern American's journey to the front of World War I
212 editions published between 1922 and 2019 in 6 languages and held by 4,965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a midwestern American's journey to the front of World War I
The professor's house by
Willa Cather(
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167 editions published between 1925 and 2018 in 10 languages and held by 4,395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called to move to a moree comfortable home, something in him rebels
167 editions published between 1925 and 2018 in 10 languages and held by 4,395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called to move to a moree comfortable home, something in him rebels
Youth and the bright Medusa by
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124 editions published between 1920 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 4,091 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright medusa of art in a hostile, materialistic world. These include some of her best tales: "Coming, Aphrodite!" focuses on a dedicated painter and his affair with a singer in pursuit of celebrity; "Paul's Case" and "A Wagner Matinee" tell of a young man and an old woman with artistic longings crushed by their environments; "The Sculptor's Funeral" and "The Diamond Mine" show the high costs of success."--Jacket
124 editions published between 1920 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 4,091 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright medusa of art in a hostile, materialistic world. These include some of her best tales: "Coming, Aphrodite!" focuses on a dedicated painter and his affair with a singer in pursuit of celebrity; "Paul's Case" and "A Wagner Matinee" tell of a young man and an old woman with artistic longings crushed by their environments; "The Sculptor's Funeral" and "The Diamond Mine" show the high costs of success."--Jacket
Alexander's bridge by
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148 editions published between 1910 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,839 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alexander's Bridge (1912), Willa Cather's first novel, tells the story of Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn between duty to his career and wife, and his passion for the Irish actress Hilda Burgoyne. In spare but often searing prose, Cather's taut novella traces a mid-life crisis of self-doubt and disappointment that ends in a spectacular catastrophe. Cather's portraits of indomitable women on the Nebraska frontier in the novels O Pioneers! and My Antonia are well-known, but Alexander's Bridge shows her working in another, equally important mode, using urban settings and the figure of the bridge-builder to analyse America's emergence as an international industrial power at the turn of the twentieth century. Both anxious and celebratory, Alexander's Bridge anticipates The Great Gatsby in trying to reckon with the social and emotional costs of a new era in American life
148 editions published between 1910 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,839 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alexander's Bridge (1912), Willa Cather's first novel, tells the story of Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn between duty to his career and wife, and his passion for the Irish actress Hilda Burgoyne. In spare but often searing prose, Cather's taut novella traces a mid-life crisis of self-doubt and disappointment that ends in a spectacular catastrophe. Cather's portraits of indomitable women on the Nebraska frontier in the novels O Pioneers! and My Antonia are well-known, but Alexander's Bridge shows her working in another, equally important mode, using urban settings and the figure of the bridge-builder to analyse America's emergence as an international industrial power at the turn of the twentieth century. Both anxious and celebratory, Alexander's Bridge anticipates The Great Gatsby in trying to reckon with the social and emotional costs of a new era in American life
Sapphira and the slave girl by
Willa Cather(
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110 editions published between 1940 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 3,733 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sapphira Colbert, a bitter but privileged white woman, begins to persecute a young slave named Nancy, whom she unjustly suspects of seducing her husband
110 editions published between 1940 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 3,733 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sapphira Colbert, a bitter but privileged white woman, begins to persecute a young slave named Nancy, whom she unjustly suspects of seducing her husband
Lucy Gayheart by
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134 editions published between 1934 and 2017 in 12 languages and held by 3,339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world
134 editions published between 1934 and 2017 in 12 languages and held by 3,339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world
Early novels and stories by
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36 editions published between 1985 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,181 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 her family to success, but not without personal sacrifice. The song of the lark: Follows the life of Thea Kronberg from her childhood in 19th-century Colorado to her career as a renowned opera singer. My Antonia: The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant. One of ours: The son of a prosperous Nebraska farmer yearns to leave his prairie home
36 editions published between 1985 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,181 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 her family to success, but not without personal sacrifice. The song of the lark: Follows the life of Thea Kronberg from her childhood in 19th-century Colorado to her career as a renowned opera singer. My Antonia: The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant. One of ours: The son of a prosperous Nebraska farmer yearns to leave his prairie home
Obscure destinies by
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106 editions published between 1923 and 2018 in 7 languages and held by 3,027 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of three novellas honoring the settlers of the American plains
106 editions published between 1923 and 2018 in 7 languages and held by 3,027 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of three novellas honoring the settlers of the American plains
My Ántonia by
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108 editions published between 1918 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 2,980 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the late nineteenth century, Antonia, a fourteen-year-old immigrant girl from Bohemia, and Jim Burden, a ten-year-old orphan boy, arrive in Black Hawk, Nebraska, and in teaching each other form a friendship that will last a lifetime
108 editions published between 1918 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 2,980 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the late nineteenth century, Antonia, a fourteen-year-old immigrant girl from Bohemia, and Jim Burden, a ten-year-old orphan boy, arrive in Black Hawk, Nebraska, and in teaching each other form a friendship that will last a lifetime
My mortal enemy by
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142 editions published between 1926 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,690 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Myra Henshawe's misadventures as her own worst enemy due to greed
142 editions published between 1926 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,690 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Myra Henshawe's misadventures as her own worst enemy due to greed
Later novels by
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28 editions published between 1990 and 1996 in English and held by 2,578 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation
28 editions published between 1990 and 1996 in English and held by 2,578 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation
Stories, poems, and other writings by
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28 editions published between 1987 and 2007 in English and held by 2,458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 pieces, critical essays, and Cather's only book of poetry
28 editions published between 1987 and 2007 in English and held by 2,458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 pieces, critical essays, and Cather's only book of poetry
Shadows on the rock by
Willa Cather(
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192 editions published between 1900 and 2018 in 9 languages and held by 2,292 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to twelve-year-old Cécile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas créche. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of a year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. And she gives us a spellbinding work of historical fiction in which great events occur first as rumors and then as legends--and in which even the most intimate domestic scenes are suffused with a sense of wonder."--Back cover
192 editions published between 1900 and 2018 in 9 languages and held by 2,292 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to twelve-year-old Cécile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas créche. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of a year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. And she gives us a spellbinding work of historical fiction in which great events occur first as rumors and then as legends--and in which even the most intimate domestic scenes are suffused with a sense of wonder."--Back cover
Shadows on the rock by
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1 edition published in 1931 in English and held by 2,086 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Frontenac must negotiate for his control of Quebec
1 edition published in 1931 in English and held by 2,086 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Frontenac must negotiate for his control of Quebec
O, Pioneers by
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93 editions published between 1941 and 2016 in English and held by 1,985 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Cather presents the story of the Nebraska prairie. Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, is devoted to the land and suffers the hardships of prairie life
93 editions published between 1941 and 2016 in English and held by 1,985 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Cather presents the story of the Nebraska prairie. Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, is devoted to the land and suffers the hardships of prairie life
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Related Identities
- Wharton, Edith 1862-1937
- University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center Other
- Glasgow, Ellen 1873-1945
- Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961
- Anderson, Sherwood 1876-1941
- James, Henry 1843-1916
- Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Bibliographic antecedent
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc Publisher
- Lewis, Sinclair 1885-1951 Author
- Faulkner, William 1897-1962 Author
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African American families American fiction American fiction--Women authors American literature Brothers and sisters Canada Cather, Willa, Catholic Church Children of clergy Clergy College teachers Colorado Criticism Czech Americans Farmers' spouses Farm life Fathers and daughters Friendship Frontenac, Louis de Buade,--comte de, Frontier and pioneer life Hopi Indians Husband and wife Illinois--Chicago Jealousy Manners and customs Married women Middle-aged men Midlife crisis Navajo Indians Nebraska New Mexico Novelists, American Opera Pharmacists Physicians Québec--Québec Slavery Soldiers Swedish Americans Teacher-student relationships United States Virginia Wharton, Edith, Women and literature Women farmers Women immigrants Women pioneers Women singers World War (1914-1918) Young women
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Alternative Names
Cather, Wilella
Cather, Wilella 1873-1947
Cather, Wilella Sibert, 1873-1947
Cather Willa
Cather, Willa 1873-1947
Cather, Willa S.
Cather, Willa S. 1873-1947
Cather Willa Sibert
Cather Willa Sibert 1873-1947
Cather, Willa Silbert.
Cather, Willa Sobert 1873-1947
Catherová, Willa
Catherová, Willa 1873-1947
Kader Vila
Katėr, Villa
Katėr, Villa 1873-1947
Kater, Willa 1873-1947
Keser, Uilla 1873-1947
Keser Vila
Kzser, Uilla
Qater, Wîla 1873-1947
Sibert Cather, Willa 1873-1947
Villa, Katėr 1873-1947
Weila Kaise 1873-1947
Willa Cather
Willa Cather American writer and novelist
Willa Cather americká spisovatelka
Willa Cather Amerikaans schrijfster
Willa Cather Amerikaans schrijver
Willa Cather amerikansk poet och författare
Willa Cather amerikansk poet og forfattar
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Willa Cather écrivain américaine
Willa Cather escritora americana
Willa Cather novelista estadounidense
Willa Cather scrittrice statunitense
Willa Cather US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin
Willa, Catherová 1873-1947
Willa, Kater 1873-1947
Willa Sibert Cather 1873-1947
Вила Катер
Вілла Катер
Катэр Вилла
Катэр, Вилла 1873-1947
Катэр, Вилла Сибер 1873-1947
Кэсер, Уилла
Уилла Кэсер американская писательница
Ուիլլա Քեսր
וילה קאתר
קאתר, ווילה סיברט
קאתר, וילה 1873-1947
קתר, וילה 1873-1947
ويلا كاثر
ويللا كاثر، 1873-1947
ویلا کاتر نویسنده و شاعر آمریکایی
วิลลา เคเธอร์
윌라 캐더
윌라 캐더 1873-1947
캐더, 윌라 1873-1947
캐더, 윌라 시버트 1873-1947
캐디, 윌러 1873-1947
캐서, 윌라 1873-1947
캐서, 윌라 시베르트 1873-1947
캐터, 윌라 시베르트 1873-1947
ウィラ・キャザー
キャザー, ウィラ
キャザー, ウイラ
威拉 凯瑟 1873-1947
薇拉·凯瑟
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