Best known for the distinctive portraits of the people and land of the American West in her prairie novels, Willa Cather is one of the greatest American writers of this century. The fourteen short stories in this richly diverse collection, along with an exemplary introduction by author Cynthia Griff
Coming, Aphrodite! and other stories
β Scribed by Cather, Willa
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 1998;1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Youth and the bright Medusa (1920) -- Coming, Aphrodite! -- The diamond mind -- A gold slipper -- Scandal -- Paulo's case -- A Wagner matineΓ© -- The sculptor's funeral -- "A death in the desert" -- Uncollected stories -- Peter (1892) -- The profile (1907) -- The enchanted bluff (1909) -- The joy of Nelly Deane (1911) -- Behind the Singer Tower (1912) -- From obscure destinies (1932) -- Old Mrs. Harris.
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