O pioneers!: When Alexandra Bergson's father dies, she is left in charge of his unsuccessful farm and her younger brothers. The unyielding land of the Nebraska Divide would be challenge enough, but a violent passion shakes this courageous young woman to her core and changes her life forever. Song of the lark: Thea Kronborg, an ambitious young singer, has to contend with the narrow-mindedness of her neighbors in a tiny Colorado town. Alexander's...

Willa Cather?s third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg. In creating Thea?s character, Cather was inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad, although Thea?s early life also has much in common with Cather?s own. Set from 1885 to 1909, the novel traces Thea?s long journey from her fictional hometown of Moonstone, Colorado, to her source of inspiration in the Southwest,...

This collection offers a representative collection of Cather's nonfiction writing for newspapers and periodicals during her first decade as a professional writer. The text is divided into three parts corresponding to major developments in Cather's career: the period from 1893 to 1896 when she first began to write regularly for Lincoln newspapers; the years in Pittsburgh when she was working for the Home Monthly and the Leader and sending her famous...

The author reveals her view of the common people and urban life in the early 1900's in this assemblage of seven stories set in New York and Pittsburgh.

The story of a successful yet impatient engineer who comes to know himself through his relations with two women: his wife, Winifred, and a young Irish actress named Hilda.

Presents nineteen stories written by American author Willa Cather between 1892 and 1900, and includes editorial notes throughout.

Fourteen articles written for the Nebraska State Journal in 1902 when Cather and her friend Isabelle McClung were traveling in England and France.