Willa Cather

Una de las novelas más importantes de Willa Cather, desde hace unos años descatalogada, ahora en edición de bolsillo. Una novela preciosa que nos descubre la América profunda de los colonos. Interesante por la forma en que esta escrita, por quien la escribio (una mujer avanzada a su tiempo que no oculto su condicion sexual) y por lo que explica, una parte de la historia de los colonos norteamericanos.

Willa Cather (1873-1947) vivió tiempos de cambios radicales en los Estados Unidos, una época de auténtica revolución literaria. "La muerte llama al arzobispo" recrea una atmósfera mágica donde confluyen ritos, creencias y supersticiones de muy diversa procedencia. Sus protagonistas son dos sacerdotes catolicos que viven aventuras y afrontan peligros como si fueran, en ocasiones, los heroes de un "western".

Bartley Alexander es un famoso ingeniero, casado con una mujer de alta sociedad. Su vida empieza a desmoronarse cuando una noche acude a presenciar una obra de teatro y descubre a su primer amor interpretando el papel principal. A partir de ese encuentro casual la vida de Alexander se escinde entre el pasado y el presente, la fidelidad y la aventura y el querer y el deber. Entre los viajes entre Boston y Londres, donde viven respectivamente su mujer y su amante, Alexander debe encontrar tiempo para viajar a Canada, donde esta construyendo el puente levadizo mas grande del mundo, simbolo de su destino tragico.

Tom Outland, killed in the Great War, seemed an embodiement of the American frontier spirit But he has left a troubling legacy, inspiring to his former professor Godfrey St Peter, but bringing betrayal and strife to the professor''s two married daughters.

Willa Cather''s My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.

The story of Marian Forrester, a wife and then a widow in a small Nebraska town, and Niel Herbert, the narrator, who has been devoted to her since he was a child, is one of Cather''s lesser-known novels, but considered by many to be one of her best. Marian is a refined and civilizing presence in the rough town to which her marriage to a rich man takes her, but after a devastating love affair, followed by her husband''s death and the loss of her money, she makes changes in her life that, at first, Niel fails to understand. It''s only years later that he is able to see that her life was, in fact, a work of art with its own logic--that the woman he revered but considered "lost" was in fact the mistress of her fate, and a woman he can continue to admire.

In this novel, Jim Burden tells the story of his beloved childhood friend Antonia, the immigrant girl and woman whose struggle and splendour represent the very source of life itself. The vitality of the pioneer West is captured in the portrait of a pioneer woman.

The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed itTo the anger of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, N

The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past. At last, in a desert canyon in Arizona, Thea has a revelation that will allow her to attain a new state of spirituality and become a truly great artist. 'Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic' Helen Dunmore 'The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work' A. S. Byatt 'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates

Willa Cather was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1873. When she was ten years old, her family moved to the prairies of Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. At the age of twenty-one, she graduated from the University of Nebraska, and she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. In 1903, her first book, April Twilights, a collection of poems, was published, and two years later The Troll Garden, a collection of stories, appeared in print. After the publication of her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, in 1912, Cather devoted herself full time to writing, and over the years she completed eleven more novels (including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop), four collections of short stories, and two volumes of essays. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours in 1923. She died in 1947.

From one of the foremost 20th-century novelists, a portrait of a formidable woman who defies the limitations set on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. This coming-of-age novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, is one of Cather''s most lyrical and popular.

A 100th anniversary edition of Cathers most-read, most-loved novel_with a new introduction by Jane Smiley. In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spiri