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Willa Cather (1873–1947)

Autor(a) de My Ántonia

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About the Author

Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and mostrar mais teacher while beginning her writing career. In 1906, Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por Willa Cather

My Ántonia (1918) 13,537 exemplares
O Pioneers! (1913) 6,297 exemplares
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) 5,890 exemplares
The Song of the Lark (1915) 1,977 exemplares
The Professor's House (1925) 1,927 exemplares
A Lost Lady (1923) 1,615 exemplares
One of Ours (1922) 1,214 exemplares
Shadows on the Rock (1931) 864 exemplares
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) 675 exemplares
My Mortal Enemy (1926) 596 exemplares
Lucy Gayheart (1935) 561 exemplares
Alexander's Bridge (1912) 456 exemplares
Stories, Poems, and Other Writings (1992) 349 exemplares
Collected Stories (1992) 301 exemplares
The Troll Garden (1905) 254 exemplares
Obscure Destinies (1932) 208 exemplares
Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) 176 exemplares
Five Stories (1956) 164 exemplares
Great Short Works of Willa Cather (1989) 139 exemplares
The Old Beauty and Others (1948) 120 exemplares
Paul's Case and Other Stories (1906) 97 exemplares
Not Under Forty (1936) 94 exemplares
April Twilights and Other Poems (2013) 73 exemplares
Paul's Case {story} (1986) 60 exemplares
Willa Cather: 24 Stories (1988) 55 exemplares
Classic Westerns (Leather-bound Classics) (2017) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Uncle Valentine and Other Stories (1973) 44 exemplares
My Ántonia / O Pioneers! (1995) 43 exemplares
Early Stories of Willa Cather (1957) 33 exemplares
The Short Stories of Willa Cather (1989) 27 exemplares
Neighbor Rosicky (1986) 26 exemplares
The Willa Cather Reader (1997) 24 exemplares
My Ántonia with Related Readings (2000) 22 exemplares
American Pioneer Writers (1991) 16 exemplares
O Pioneers! [1992 TV movie] (1992) — Autor — 16 exemplares
The Burglar's Christmas (1896) 15 exemplares
A Wagner Matinée [short story] (1986) 13 exemplares
Coming, Aphrodite! (2008) 9 exemplares
Los libros de cuentos (2006) 8 exemplares
The Sculptor's Funeral (2005) 7 exemplares
Vintage Cather (2004) 7 exemplares
A Gold Slipper (2010) 5 exemplares
The Bohemian Girl (2008) 4 exemplares
A Death in the Desert (2005) 4 exemplares
The Diamond Mine (2010) 4 exemplares
Scandal (2010) 3 exemplares
The Enchanted Bluff (2013) 3 exemplares
Old Mrs. Harris 3 exemplares
The Old Beauty (1948) 3 exemplares
Cather studies. Volume 2 (1993) 2 exemplares
Willa Cather: 47 Works (2014) 2 exemplares
The Treasure of Far Island (2010) 2 exemplares
Alexander’s Bridge 2 exemplares
Two Friends 1 exemplar
A Lost lady 1 exemplar
Farmář Rosický 1 exemplar
O pioniers! (2019) 1 exemplar
The Namesake [short story] (2013) 1 exemplar
My Ántonia: A Play (2013) 1 exemplar
Consequences 1 exemplar
Early Short Stories (2004) 1 exemplar
Flavia and Her Artists (2013) 1 exemplar
Miss Jewett 1 exemplar
148 Charles Street 1 exemplar
[No title] 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Contribuidor — 1,552 exemplares
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (1896) — Preface, algumas edições1,052 exemplares
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) — Prefácio, algumas edições930 exemplares
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 743 exemplares
Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway (2004) — Contribuidor — 587 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) — Contribuidor — 452 exemplares
Great Short Stories by American Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 408 exemplares
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Contribuidor — 397 exemplares
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contribuidor — 365 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Contribuidor — 275 exemplares
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 267 exemplares
Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (1990) — Contribuidor — 250 exemplares
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (1993) — Contribuidor — 191 exemplares
World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It (1918) — Contribuidor — 190 exemplares
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (1969) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
This Is My Best (1942) — Contribuidor — 186 exemplares
Sixteen Short Novels (1985) — Contribuidor — 174 exemplares
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019) — Contribuidor — 166 exemplares
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contribuidor, algumas edições152 exemplares
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Contribuidor — 137 exemplares
The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (1988) — Contribuidor — 133 exemplares
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990) — Contribuidor — 111 exemplares
Soul: An Archaeology--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles (1994) — Contribuidor — 101 exemplares
American Short Stories (1976) — Contribuidor, algumas edições95 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
More Stories to Remember, Volume I (1958) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
The Screaming Skull and Other Great American Ghost Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
More Stories to Remember, Volumes I & II (1958) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Infinite Riches (1993) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
May Your Days Be Merry and Bright: Christmas Stories by Women (1988) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women (1997) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
The Faber Book of Gardens (2007) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett (1959) — Editor, algumas edições43 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
Ellery Queen's Book of Mystery Stories by 25 Famous Writers (1952) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
Medusa's Daughters (2020) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Westward the Women: An Anthology of Western Stories by Women (1984) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Bodies of the Dead and Other Great American Ghost Stories (1995) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 (1939) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
American short stories, 1820 to the present (1952) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Roundup: A Nebraska Reader (1957) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Love Stories (1975) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Modern American Short Stories (1945) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Once Upon a Childhood: Stories and Memories of American Youth (2004) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Family: Stories from the Interior (1987) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Classic Short Stories by Trailblazing Women (2023) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
She Won the West (1985) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Unbridled Spirits: Short Fiction about Women in the Old West (1994) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Great Western short stories (1777) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Famous Stories (1966) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
More Stories to Remember, Volume III (1958) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Dangerous Ladies (1992) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Great Classic Ghost Stories (2011) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Teen-Age Treasury for Girls (1958) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Classic Women's Literature (2001) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Eighteen Stories (1965) 4 exemplares
Child's Ploy (1984) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
American Short Stories (1978) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Great Classic Womens Fiction (2011) 3 exemplares
Alfred A. Knopf - quarter century 1915-1940 (1940) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
A Modern Galaxy: Short Stories — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 1 (1953) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Golden Book Magazine - February 1934 (Volume XIX, No. 110) (1934) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
O Pioneers! / The Great Gatsby / The Good Earth (1989) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Whole Pieces (1990) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Juvenile Delinquency in Literature (1980) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Song of the Lark [2001 TV movie] — Original book — 1 exemplar
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Cather, Wilella
Data de nascimento
1873-12-07
Data de falecimento
1947-04-24
Localização do túmulo
Old Burying Yard, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
Local de falecimento
New York, New York, USA
Causa da morte
cerebral hemorrhage
Locais de residência
Winchester, Virginia, USA
Willow Shade, Virginia, USA
Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
Red Cloud, Nebraska, USA
Catherton, Nebraska, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (mostrar todos 9)
New York, New York, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada
Educação
University of Nebraska (1895)
Ocupações
novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
drama critic
editor (mostrar todos 8)
teacher
reporter
Organizações
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Pittsburgh Daily Leader
Allegheny High School, Pittsburgh
McClure's Magazine (managing editor)
Bread Loaf School of English
Prémios e menções honrosas
Gold Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1944)
Nebraska Hall of Fame (1962)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1943)
Prix Fémina Américain (1933)
New York Writers Hall of Fame (2011)

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Wilella "Willa" Cather was born on her maternal grandmother's farm in Back Creek Valley, near Winchester, Virginia. In 1883, when she was nine years old, the family moved to the Nebraska frontier, eventually settling in Red Cloud. She graduated in 1895 from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. A year later, she moved to Pittsburgh to work as a magazine editor and theater critic. From 1901 to 1906, she taught high school English. During this time, she published April Twilights (1903), a book of poems, and The Troll Garden (1905), a collection of short stories. At age 33, she moved to New York City.

Membros

Discussions

December 2023: Willa Cather em Monthly Author Reads (Fevereiro 7)
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 1983 em George Macy devotees (Fevereiro 2023)
September 2021 Group Read - O! Pioneers by Willa Cather em Geeks who love the Classics (Outubro 2021)
May Read: Willa Cather em Virago Modern Classics (Agosto 2017)
Willa Cather reading week December 7th - 14th em Virago Modern Classics (Dezembro 2014)
Willa Cather- American Author Challenge em 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Novembro 2014)
September 2014: Willa Cather em Monthly Author Reads (Novembro 2014)
drneutron's 2014 Reading - Fourth Reel em 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Julho 2014)
labwriter reads Death Comes for the Archbishop em 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Dezembro 2011)

Críticas

Uncle Valentine was sad. He comes home after years away after a scandal caused his marriage to fail. He explains it to his friend Charlotte. Then his ex-wife returns and does something I consider to be so nasty and painful to Valentine. Though she is only talked about, I did not like the ex-wife.

I cannot remember the names of the other three stories. I did feel bad for the man who was called home from Paris as his group of friends learn about their neighbor. I also felt sad for the school master who retires realizing he did not take risks and lived a staid life knowing his students would be working in the steel mills after graduation.

Willa Cather's writing was phenomenal. Her descriptions put you in the person's shoes. You see exactly what she sees. You feel what the character feels. I was glad I read these.
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Sheila1957 | Mar 16, 2024 |
This mid-career Cather (which I found in this fun 1973 Vintage paperback edition) is a bit of an odd triptych in construction, the first panel being a sort of university novel featuring Professor St. Peter, the middle panel being a story of discovery in the beautiful isolation of the New Mexican landscape starring a past student at the university, Tom Outland, and the final panel a psychological novel’s conclusion bringing us back into St. Peter’s life.

For me the main theme of the novel is the attraction of isolation and an abandonment of contemporary social life. St. Peter in the first section feels the distance that has grown up in his comfortable marriage and while he loves his two grown daughters he feels exhausted by their, and his sons-in-law, company. His wife at one point asks him what he’s thinking about as he has just smiled to himself. “I was thinking,” he answered absently, “about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea…”

Tom’s section then comes at this theme from the point of view of youth rather than age. Tom and his close friend Roddy discover the centuries old ruins of an abandoned stone city inside a miles long inhospitable mesa in the middle of New Mexico’s wilderness. Tom goes to D.C. to try to interest experts in the find but encounters only disappointment and disillusionment.
How it did use to depress me to see all the hundreds of clerks come pouring out of that big building at sunset! Their lives seemed to me so petty, so slavish… they spent their lives trying to keep up appearances… there was always a struggle going on for an invitation to a dinner or a reception, or even a tea-party.


Tom returns to New Mexico and spends the following summer alone in a cabin on top of the mesa, a high point in his life.

I can scarcely hope that life will give me another summer like that one. It was my high tide. Every morning, when the sun’s rays first hit the mesa top, while the rest of the world was in shadow, I wakened with the feeling that I had found everything, instead of having lost everything. Nothing tired me. Up there alone, a close neighbour to the sun, I seemed to get the solar energy in some direct way.


Finally, back to St. Peter, the professor remains behind while his family leaves for an extended European vacation, and psychologically feels that his life is done and over with, while identifying once again with the boy he was in childhood.

The Kansas boy who had come back to St. Peter this summer was not a scholar. He was a primitive. He was only interested in earth and woods and water… He seemed to know, among other things, that he was solitary and must always be so; he had never married, never been a father. He was earth, and would return to earth. When white clouds blew over the lake like bellying sails, when the seven pine-trees turned red in the declining sun, he felt satisfaction and said to himself merely: “That is right.”


Other themes are undoubtedly present in the novel, including quite possibly a queer theme in the relationship between Tom and Roddy, perhaps too in that between St. Peter and Tom. This is the one however that sticks out most to me in this reading.
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lelandleslie | 46 outras críticas | Feb 24, 2024 |
In the middle of the 19th century, so much of what will become the western United States has yet to be settled. The leaders of the Catholic Church are eager to establish a diocese in the New Mexico territory that will be independent of control from church officials in Mexico. A young French priest, Father Jean Marie Latour, who has been posted in the eastern United States for a while, is selected for the task. Joined by Father Joseph Vaillant, a life-long friend who serves as his vicar and confidant, Latour makes his way to Santa Fe where his presence meets with considerable resistance from both the established clergy and the local Indian, Mexican, and American parishioners. Over time, however, the gentle and steadfast efforts of the two priests prevail and the church prospers along with the town and the country. Eventually, Latour’s parish is raised to the level of an archdiocese, over which he serves first as Bishop and then as Archbishop. Near the end of his days, almost forty years after arriving in the region, he realizes his dream of building a great cathedral to serve the needs of the people long after he is gone.

That is the basic story of Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather’s celebrated novel that provides a fictionalized account of the real-life exploits of Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the true first Archbishop of Santa Fe. In Cather’s spare and succinct prose, this is a tale covering events that transpired over a period of several decades, but it does so in an episodic fashion that makes the book feel more like a collection of interconnected short vignettes. What I found to be strangely absent in the writing, though, was a real sense of the religious fervor and faith that the two priests must have felt to undertake the audacious mission of establishing a new church in a hostile environment amongst people with a completely different spiritual orientation. On the other hand, where the novel really shines is in the author’s depiction of the New Mexican and Southwestern landscapes. There are countless passages scattered throughout the story that are simply stunning—breathtakingly beautiful, in fact. I suspect that it will be these descriptions of the natural world, rather than the details of Latour/Lamy’s accomplishments, that will stick with me the farther removed I become from having read the book.
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browner56 | 145 outras críticas | Feb 16, 2024 |
A little tragedy about a gay-hearted young woman in the early 20th century Great Plains. It really brought a feel for the times and the location. I liked it as a story; it kept me reading; though sometimes it risked getting a little too talky-feely. And I wish things could have gone better for Lucy.

Part of it reminded me of THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin, particularly this: "Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself - except that the changes were all in the direction of becoming more and more herself."

Why she had to lie to her old beau, implying something had happened that hadn't - and really why she couldn't marry him in the first place: "She had tried to tell him the truth about a feeling; but a feeling meant nothing to him, he had to be clubbed by a situation." I love that, "clubbed by a situation."
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Tytania | 16 outras críticas | Feb 10, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
157
Also by
106
Membros
40,282
Popularidade
#439
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
935
ISBN
1,754
Línguas
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Marcado como favorito
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