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Encyclopedia Articles (3)

Excerpt from My Antonia by Willa Cather

4,254 words, approx. 15 pages

Excerpt from My Antonia by Willa Cather Excerpt from My Antonia Published in 1918 A novel accurately relates the difficulties experienced by European immigrants in the United States in the late ninete... Read more

Cather, Willa

27,866 words, approx. 93 pages

Willa Cather (1873 - 1947) (Full name Willa Sibert Cather) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and poet. Willa Cather: Introduction Willa Cather: Principal Works Willa Cather: Pri... Read more

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

341 words, approx. 2 pages

Cather, Willa (1873-1947) Willa Cather, variously perceived by critics as realistic, regionalist, or sentimental, as well as an unusual literary stylist of unhurried elegance, memorably exploited th... Read more

Biographies (7)

Willa Sibert Cather

647 words, approx. 3 pages

The American author Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) is distinguished for her strong and sensitive evocations of prairie life in the twilight years of the midwestern frontier. Her poetic sensibility wa... Read more

Willa Sibert Cather

9,750 words, approx. 33 pages

Willa Cather is a splendid example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character. The corner of earth that she is ... Read more

Willa Sibert Cather

2,268 words, approx. 8 pages

"I do not take myself seriously as a poet," said Willa Cather in a 1925 interview. Having by then published many short stories and six novels (of an eventual twelve) and having won a Pulitzer Prize fo... Read more

Willa Sibert Cather

4,008 words, approx. 14 pages

The literary reputation of Willa Cather has steadily risen since her first volume of short stories appeared in 1905, but her present stature as an important American writer rests largely on her twel... Read more

Willa Sibert Cather

7,822 words, approx. 27 pages

During the 1973 Willa Cather centennial seminar in Lincoln, Nebraska, Leon Edel--the Henry James biographer who collaborated with E. K. Brown on the first important biographical study of Cather--put h... Read more

Willa Sibert Cather

10,480 words, approx. 35 pages

Biography EssayWilla Cather is an outstanding example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character. The corner of ... Read more

Willa Silbert Cather

4,804 words, approx. 17 pages

"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," Willa Cather observed in her second novel, O Pioneers!, but the same theme resonates throughout all of her work. Passionately in... Read more