On writing
Title | On writing PDF eBook |
Author | Willa Cather |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Title | The Selected Letters of Willa Cather PDF eBook |
Author | Willa Cather |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 753 |
Release | 2013-04-16 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0307959317 |
Time Magazine's 10 Top Nonfiction Books of the Year • Willa Cather’s letters—withheld from publication for more than six decades—are finally available to the public in this fascinating selection. The hundreds collected here range from witty reports of life as a teenager in Red Cloud in the 1880s through her college years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York, and her growing eminence as a novelist. They describe her many travels and record her last years, when the loss of loved ones and the disasters of World War II brought her near to despair. Above all, they reveal her passionate interest in people, literature, and the arts. The voice is one we recognize from her fiction: confident, elegant, detailed, openhearted, concerned with profound ideas, but also at times sentimental, sarcastic, and funny. A deep pleasure to read, this volume reveals the intimate joys and sorrows of one of America’s most admired writers.
Willa Cather in Person
Title | Willa Cather in Person PDF eBook |
Author | Willa Cather |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1986-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780803263260 |
Cather, the Nebraska-born novelist, describes her childhood, her career as a writer, and the influences on her work
Willa Cather On Writing
Title | Willa Cather On Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Willa Cather |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 79 |
Release | 2013-05-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0307831477 |
"Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears inWilla Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all—no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself—a game of make-believe, of re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it."
One of Ours
Title | One of Ours PDF eBook |
Author | Willa Cather |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Farm life |
ISBN | 1442934379 |
Private Way
Title | Private Way PDF eBook |
Author | Ladette Randolph |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2022-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1496230493 |
After being cyber-bullied, the founder of a successful social media platform leaves Southern California for Lincoln, Nebraska. With the help of her neighbors and Willa Cather’s novels, she finds something she hadn’t known she was searching for.
Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
Title | Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Ross Acocella |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780803210462 |
Defending Willa Cather against historical and critical distortions, the author argues that Cather's central vision was a tragic vision of the human condition rather than a firm political agenda.