Willa Cather

Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Antonia details of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska....

Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic - almost mythic - story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the Southwestern desert....

Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50s, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels....

In 1697 Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile....

Thea Kronberg has a voice that can call down angels and the soul of a Colorado pioneer girl....

Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale....

Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works....

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Willa Cather, considered My Antonia to be one of her best works, and critic H.L. Mencken claimed it was one of the best American novels ever written. Published in 1918, the novel compassionately and intimately traces the story of a Bohemian family....

A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them....

Written in 1915 and featuring lyrical and authentic insights about life on the frontier, this book is the second in Willa Cather's "Prairie Trilogy", following O Pioneers! and preceding My Ántonia....