Willa Cather
Author
Series
Letras universales volume 297
Language
Español
Description
The story of a French priest who goes to New Mexico and, with another priest, wins the southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 1896 ... Sarah Orne Jewett published her finest work, The Country of the Pointed Firs, about a woman writer who retreats one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, to find seclusion to do her work. In the novel and stories collected here, Jewett explores the world of the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal towns, offering a detailed view of lives molded by the long Maine winters, by the surrounding rock-filled fields, and by...
73) Mi Ántonia
Author
Series
Alba minus volume 23
Language
Español
Description
« Mi Ántonia» (1918) es una visión tan fidedigna como generosa de la América de los pioneros. Basada en recuerdos personales de la autora, es además una gran novela sobre la memoria y sus procesos, recreados y estilizados con la magistral técnica y sensibilidad de Willa Cather.--casadellibro.com
Author
Language
English
Description
O Pioneers! (1913) is an classic tale of the Nebraska frontier. The Song of the Lark (1915) is a story of the struggles of a young artist. One of Ours (1922) is a portrait of a young man born after the American frontier has vanished, whose quintessentially American restlessness seeks redemption on a World War I battlefield. My Antonia (1918) is a memoir of a successful New York City lawyer, who tells an acquaintance the story of his Nebraska childhood...
78) My Àntonia
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The strengths and passions of America's early settlers are memorably rendered in this portrait of a pioneer woman.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some of the most iconic tales made it into this volume of Fairy Tales for Adults. These stories with universal appeal for generations of all ages bring some of the most memorable characters together. They seem both familiar and mysterious every time one comes in contact with them. The eternal wisdom and charm keeps these stories alive for hundreds of years. This volume includes: Beauty and the Beast, Blue Beard, Cinderella by Charles Perrault, The...