Vintage, November 1990. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A lyrical and bittersweet novel of a middle-aged man losing control of his life that's a brilliant study in emotional dislocation and renewal--from one of the most highly acclaimed authors of the twentieth century. Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a......
Signet Classics, April 1991. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Since the time of its publication in 1915, this novel had captivated readers with its sharp observations, shimmering descriptions, sly humor, and its provocative heroine -- a feisty young woman who strives to create her own destiny, regardless.....
University of Nebraska Press, (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. 412 pages. First edition (first printing). Fading to the top edge of boards, and a bit of wear to cloth edges else a fine copy; in a spine faded very good dust jacket with a snag to the top of rear panel.....
University of Nebraska Press, June 1990. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). As she grew older Willa Cather became ever more private, complaining of favor-seekers and other parasites of fame. But in her long career she granted thirty-four interviews, gave six public speeches, and published ten letters, discussing literature.....
Canterbury Classics, October 2017. Novelty. As the American West opened up to settlers after the Civil War, people were eager for tales of great adventures, endless possibilities, and the pioneering spirit. Classic Westerns is a collection of six novels that captured this sense of exploration and brought the rugged landscape.....
Everyman's Library, July 1992. Hardcover. Introduction by A. S. Byatt Willa Cather's story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and his work of faith in the wilderness of the Southwest is told with a spare but sensuous directness and profound artistry. When Latour arrives in 1851 in the.....
Random House Inc, November 1991. Trade Paperback. Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses.....
Vintage, September 1995. Trade Paperback. Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to a new world even as they clung to the artifacts and manners of one they left behind. In 1697, Quebec.....