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  • The Song of the Lark
    Willa Cather
    'There is only one big thing-desire.' In the little Colorado town of Moonstone, a country doctor, a battered music-master, and above all her quiet, believing mother see what no one else can: that Thea Kronborg, the minister’s tall Swedish daughter, has the gift of a great voice.The Song of the Lark (1915) is Willa Cather’s fullest and most personal novel - the story of a girl w...
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    19,32 €

  • The Song of the Lark (Cram Edition)
    Willa Cather
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Song of the Lark pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Willa Cather’s 'Song of the Lark' is a powerful story of artistic ambition and personal growth. This literary classic explores the life of a woman artist, tracing her journey from her roots in Nebraska to...
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    31,75 €

  • The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
    Sarah Orne Jewett / Willa Cather
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Discover the evocative world of 19th-century New England in 'The best stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, Volume 1 of 2.' This collection showcases the celebrated short stories of Sarah Orne Je...
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    25,26 €

  • The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
    Sarah Orne Jewett / Willa Cather
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The best stories of Sarah Orne Jewett pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Experience the heart of 19th-century New England in 'The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, Volume 2 of 2.' This meticulously prepared print edition showcases the enduring appeal of Jewet...
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    25,20 €

  • O Pioneers! (Cram Edition)
    Willa Cather
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of O Pioneers! pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Willa Cather’s 'O Pioneers!' is a timeless exploration of frontier life and the immigrant experience in the American West. Set against the backdrop of the Nebraska prairie, the novel captures the challenges and tr...
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    25,30 €

  • My Ántonia (Cram Edition)
    Willa Cather
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of My Ántonia pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Willa Cather’s 'My Antonia' is a poignant portrayal of immigrant and pioneer life on the Nebraska frontier. This literary classic captures the spirit of the American West through the story of Czech Americans carvin...
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    26,02 €

  • The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories (Cram Edition)
    Willa Cather
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Step back in time with Willa Cather’s 'The Troll Garden, et al,' a collection of short stories offering a poignant glimpse into the social fabric of early 20th century Nebraska. Cather, ...
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    25,10 €

  • One of Ours (Cram Edition)
    Willa Cather
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of One of Ours pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Willa Cather’s 'One of Ours' is a powerful and moving story set against the backdrop of World War One. This literary classic explores the complexities of rural life on the Great Plains, focusing on soldiers and th...
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    31,89 €

  • My Ántonia (Cram Edition)
    Willa Cather
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of My Ántonia pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Willa Cather’s 'My Antonia' is a timeless exploration of friendship and the immigrant experience on the American frontier. Set against the backdrop of Nebraska’s rural landscape, this classic work of literary ficti...
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    27,03 €

  • A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays (Cram Edition)
    Willa Cather
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Discover early 20th-century American social life through the insightful lens of Willa Cather in 'A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays.' This compilation offers a captivating ...
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    28,02 €

  • The Professor’s House (Cram Edition)
    Willa Cather
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Professor’s House pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Willa Cather’s 'The Professor’s House' explores the intricate tapestry of academic life and human relationships in the American Midwest. This meticulously prepared edition invites readers to delve into a...
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    25,29 €

  • My Mortal Enemy
    Willa Cather
    A marriage glittering with promise in the salons of 1920s New York can curdle into a private battlefield, where love and ambition become one another’s undoing. In the shadowed parlours and bustling streets of a city poised between old money and new dreams, the story unfolds with the sharp psychological insight of a Henry James influence and the biting social observation reminis...
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    15,32 €

  • Sapphira and the Slave Girl
    Willa Cather
    A Virginia dawn, heavy with the scent of magnolia and the weight of unspoken secrets, sets the stage for a story where loyalty and betrayal entwine as tightly as the roots of ancient oaks. In the heart of the antebellum South, the boundaries between master and servant, kin and stranger, are as fragile as the morning mist-yet the consequences of crossing them are as enduring as ...
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    18,87 €

  • Obscure Destinies
    Willa Cather
    A windblown prairie dusk, the hush broken only by the distant creak of a cartwheel-here, the ordinary becomes profound, and the smallest gestures echo across a vast, untamed landscape. In these finely wrought american short stories, the sweep of the great plains setting is not merely a backdrop but a living force, shaping destinies and quietly revealing the intricacies of human...
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    17,84 €

  • The Enchanted Bluff
    Willa Cather
    A boyhood dream shimmers on the far horizon, where the prairies of Nebraska meet the sky and the impossible feels just within reach. In the hush of a small town, a group of friends gather at dusk, weaving stories of distant mesas and wild hopes that echo the longing of early twentieth-century America. Here, in a novella both intimate and expansive, the quiet rhythms of small to...
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    15,18 €

  • Shadows on the Rock
    Willa Cather
    Snow settles on a distant stone outcrop, softening the edges of a world both harsh and quietly luminous. In seventeenth century Montreal, where winter’s grip shapes every heartbeat and hope, a handful of settlers carve out daily life amid the wilds of New France. Here, the immigrant experience unfolds in intimate detail, as faith and perseverance become both shield and solace a...
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    19,62 €

  • Lucy Gayheart
    Willa Cather
    A frozen river, a song echoing through the Nebraska dusk, and a life poised between longing and loss-these are the moments that linger long after the final page is turned. At once intimate and epic, this twentieth century novel unfolds in the heart of the Midwestern United States, where small town life shapes and confines a young woman’s search for meaning. Set against the star...
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    18,02 €

  • Not Under Forty
    Willa Cather
    A single candle flickers in a quiet study as dusk settles, illuminating pages where the boundaries of literature and life dissolve. Here, the reader is drawn into a world where literary culture themes are not merely dissected but deeply felt, where the act of writing becomes both an art and an act of courage. This remarkable collection of twentieth century essays, long out of p...
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    16,43 €

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    Willa Cather
    Death Comes for the ArchbishopSet in the 1850s, this short novel is about the struggles and triumphs of a bishop, Jean Marie Latour, and his loyal friend and vicar, Father Joseph Vaillant. They have been sent to reawaken and spread the Roman Catholic faith in an area where it has grown weak: New Mexico, recently annexed by the United States. Desolate and remote, the territory i...
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    24,02 €

  • O Pioneers!
    Willa Cather
    Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! was first published in June of 1913 by Houghton Mifflin to high praise. Cather was immensely proud of the work and considered it her first 'true' novel, having discovered her own form and subject.Told in five parts, O Pioneers! follows the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants farming the prairie of Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century...
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    24,18 €

  • The Song of the Lark
    Willa Cather
    The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather’s third novel, was written in 1915. It is said to have been inspired by the real-life soprano Olive Fremstad, a celebrated Swedish-American singer who, like the protagonist, was active in New York and Europe during the time period depicted in the novel.The work explores how an artist’s early life influences their work. In the novel, Thea Kronb...
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    27,78 €

  • One of Ours
    Willa Cather
    Claude Wheeler is the son of a successful Nebraskan farmer and a very devout mother. He’s sent to a private religious college because his mother feels it’s safer, but he yearns for State college where he might be able expand his knowledge of the real world. Claude doesn’t feel comfortable in any situation, and almost every step he takes is a wrong one. While he’s struggling to ...
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    28,12 €

  • Obscure Destinies
    Willa Cather
    'Obscure Destinies' is a poignant collection of three short stories that capture the essence of life in the American West with profound empathy and clarity. Through this work, celebrated author Willa Cather explores the quiet, often overlooked lives of ordinary people, finding extraordinary depth in their daily struggles and triumphs. The collection includes 'Neighbour Rosicky,...
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    23,05 €

  • A Lost Lady
    Willa Cather
    'A Lost Lady' is a definitive work of American modernism that captures the poignant decline of the pioneer spirit in the Old West. Set in the small railroad town of Sweet Water, the novel centers on Marian Forrester, the charming and enigmatic wife of Captain Daniel Forrester, a wealthy railroad builder. Seen through the eyes of Niel Herbert, a young man who idolizes her, the s...
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    21,03 €

  • The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
    Willa Cather
    'The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett' is a masterful collection of short fiction that defines the American regionalist movement. Curated with an introductory perspective by the renowned author Willa Cather, this volume brings together the finest works of a writer who captured the soul of the New England coast with unparalleled precision and empathy.Jewett’s narratives are cel...
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    26,08 €

  • My Mortal Enemy
    Willa Cather
    'My Mortal Enemy' is a poignant and starkly realistic novella by Willa Cather that explores the complexities of human emotion and the consequences of life-altering choices. The narrative follows Myra Henshawe, a woman who famously abandoned her family’s vast wealth to elope for love, an act of romantic defiance that becomes the central pivot of her eventual undoing. Seen throug...
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    20,14 €

  • Youth and the Bright Medusa
    Willa Cather
    'Youth and the Bright Medusa' is a masterful collection of short stories by Willa Cather that explores the profound intersection of art, ambition, and the fleeting nature of youth. In these evocative narratives, Cather delves into the lives of performers, musicians, and painters who are driven by a singular passion for their craft, often at the cost of personal stability or soc...
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    26,19 €

  • My Antonia
    Willa Cather
    'My Antonia' is a definitive work of American fiction that chronicles the lives of immigrant families on the Nebraska prairie during the late 19th century. Narrated by Jim Burden, the story centers on the life of Ántonia Shimerda, a vibrant and determined young woman from Bohemia who arrives in the untamed West. Through Jim’s recollections, the novel provides a sweeping view of...
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    26,90 €

  • The Professor’s House
    Willa Cather
    'The Professor’s House' is a profound exploration of intellectual accomplishment and the subsequent disillusionment that often follows. Set in a Midwestern university town, the novel centers on Godfrey St. Peter, a middle-aged academic who has just completed his life’s work-an eight-volume history of Spanish explorers in North America. Despite his professional success and his f...
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    25,10 €

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    Willa Cather
    'Death Comes for the Archbishop' is a masterpiece of American literature that chronicles the life and missionary efforts of Bishop Jean Marie Latour and his faithful companion, Father Joseph Vaillant. Set in the mid-19th century, the narrative follows these two French priests as they navigate the vast and beautiful landscapes of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory. Tasked w...
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    26,15 €


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