Автор: Cather, Willa Название: Death comes for the archbishop ISBN: 1784874450 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784874452 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A portrait of an enduring friendship, from one of America`s most celebrated novelists. `Quite simply a masterpiece` Daily Telegraph Two priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexico to reinvigorate Catholicism among the locals, knowing little of the challenges that await them.
Автор: Cather, Willa Название: O Pioneers! ISBN: 1841593419 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841593418 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: At the turn of the twentieth century. Central to the novel`s action is the Nebraskan landscape it describes, by turns unyielding and fruitful, bitter and ecstatic.O Pioneers! joins Cather`s My Antonia in Everyman`s Library.
Автор: Wister Owen, Cather Willa, Grey Zane Название: Classic Westerns ISBN: 1684120977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684120970 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 19150.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Discover six classic novels as you follow the footsteps of the trailblazers who settled the American West. 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 into the homes of readers everywhere. These novels--The Virginian by Owen Wister, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, The Lone Star Ranger and The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey, and Gunman's Reckoning and The Untamed by Max Brand--tell of life on the open plains, in dusty outposts, and alongside majestic mountain ranges that rose to greet travelers who ventured forth into the unexplored country to find their destinies.
Автор: Cather, Willa Название: O Pioneers! ISBN: 0451532120 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451532121 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 3030.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: "A direct, human tale of love and struggle and attainment--American in the best sense of the word."--The New York Times On the windy Nebraska prairie, Alexandra Bergson tends to the failing farm that she inherited from her father. She struggles to raise her brothers on her own. And she is torn by the emergence of an unexpected passion... A magnificent story, O Pioneers --Willa Cather's second novel--has become one of the great classics of American literature, telling a timeless tale of a strong pioneer woman facing extraordinary challenges and conflicts, shining a light on the immigrant experience, and, with its simple, beautiful prose, revealing the emerging voice of one of our greatest authors. With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements and an Afterword by Lan Samantha Chang
Автор: Cather Willa Название: Obscure Destinies: Large Print ISBN: 1098920279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098920272 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) is an eminent author from the United States. She is perhaps best known for her depictions of U.S. life in novels such as O Pioneers , My ntonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Автор: Cather Willa Название: The Professor`s House: Large Print ISBN: 1098749162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098749163 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: When Professor Godfrey and wife move to a new house, he becomes uncomfortable with the road his life is taking. He keeps his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life. Also the marriages of his two daughters have removed them from the home, precipitating a mid-life crisis that leaves the Professor feeling as though he has lost the will to live because he feels he has nothing to look forward to anymore. Can he resolve to go on with his life and make the best of things, or is something more sinister in the stars?
Автор: Cather Willa Название: A Lost Lady ISBN: 1072585774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781072585770 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for 'life on any terms, ' and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her. This, Willa Cather's most perfect novel, is not only a portrait of a troubling beauty, but also a haunting evocation of a noble age slipping irrevocably into the past
Автор: Cather Willa Название: A Lost Lady: Large Print ISBN: 1070760382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070760384 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for 'life on any terms, ' and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her. This, Willa Cather's most perfect novel, is not only a portrait of a troubling beauty, but also a haunting evocation of a noble age slipping irrevocably into the past
Автор: Cather Willa Название: My Antonia: Large Print ISBN: 1070710962 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070710969 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18380.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: After the death of his parents, Jim is sent to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska plains. By chance on that same train is a bright-eyed girl, Antonia, who will become his neighbor and lifelong friend. Her family has emigrated from Bohemia to start a new life farming but soon lose their money and must work hard just to survive. Through it all, Antonia retains her natural pride and free spirit. Jim's grandparents have a large and tidy farm. They are kind to him, but conventional. Later Jim becomes a scholar and Antonia becomes a 'hired girl' in town. She blossoms in the new freedom that town life offers. Jim can only taste this life vicariously through her recounting of town gossip and of the 'dance tent'. Antonia's strong will, spirit, and honesty allow her to thrive in the midst of hardship. Cather paints a rich picture of life on the prairie at the beginning of the twentieth century and depicts some of the many cultures that came to comprise the United States.
Автор: Cather Willa Название: One of Ours: Large Print ISBN: 107071125X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070711256 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 26430.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: An intimate story of young man's life. Claude Wheeler's stormy youth, his enigmatic marriage, and the final adventure which releases the baffled energy of the boy's nature, are told with almost epic simplicity. World War I offers him even more, but he may crave excitement more than life itself can allow. Wanting it as much as he does can't protect him from the consequences of personal bravado in an age of killing machines. But behind the personal drama there is an ever deepening sense of national drama, of national character, working itself our through individuals and their destiny.
Автор: Cather Willa Название: Not Under Forty: Large Print ISBN: 1099443113 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781099443114 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My ntonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, 4] supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.
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