Miller writes in the introduction, 'To read the stories of Willa Cather is to discover that her short fiction is an essential part of the great legacy she left to our country.

The volume also includes an important critical essay, 'The Novel Démeublé.' As Robert K. This collection spans her career from talented young writer to Pulitzer Prize-winning author. She developed a love for the beauty of open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. Listen Free to Bohemian Girl: Stories audiobook by Willa Cather with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and iOS.

Collected here are short works from the early portion of Cather's career, each tale indelibly marked by the themes and landscapes she would explore throughout the remainder of her writing life and in classic works such as 'O Pioneers!' and 'My ntonia.' Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.A luminous collection-with an introduction, notes, chronology, and bibliography-of ten of Willa Cather's short works written from 1900 to 1920. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the 'Summer of the Short Story.' A story from Lydia Peelle's forthcoming collection, REASONS FOR AND ADVANTAGES OF BREATHING, will be printed at the back of this volume. Alongside THE BOHEMIAN GIRL, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. This collection includes work from the early part of Cather's career and clearly marks themes and landscapes that she would detail and explore for the remainder of her life. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, and family tragedy, she. Wilella Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley (Gore), Virginia, in December 7, 1873. The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. Widely recognized as Willa Cather ’s greatest novel, My Ántonia is a soulful and rich portrait of a pioneer woman’s simple yet heroic life. Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier.

The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather