Don Hedger had lived for four years on the top floor of an old house on the south side of Washington Square, and nobody had ever disturbed him. He occupied one big room with no outside exposure except
One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather which won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a native of Nebraska around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a succe
Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed."Ralph, Ralph, get awake! Come down and help me wash the c
My Antonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pion
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico territory.The novel portrays two well-me
One of Ours by Willa Cather won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, it tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an
Willa Sibert Cather (1873 – 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and The Song of the Lar
One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather which won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize about the life of a native of Nebraska around the turn of the 20th century. H. L. Mencken suggested the novel read like "a Holl
My Antonia was enthusiastically received in 1918 when it was first published. It was considered a masterpiece and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. Today, it is considered as her firs
The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. The title The Song of the Lark came from a painting of the same name by Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton, datin
LAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle Burden—Jim Burden, as we still call him
O Pioneers! is the first book in Willa Cather's Great Plains Trilogy.Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm when her father passes away. She decides to make a go of it when so many other immigrant
O Pioneers! is the first book in Willa Cather's Great Plains Trilogy.Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm when her father passes away. She decides to make a go of it when so many other immigran
This powerful early Cather novel, a landmark of American fiction, tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they h
Willa Cather's book, 'One of Ours', was written in honor and memory of her cousin who was killed in France during World War I, the war to end all wars. This book won the Pulitzer award. It is the beau
