The Troll Garden and Selected Stories

by Willa Cather

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781727495522
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/24/2018
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Wilella Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947) is an eminent author from the United States. She is perhaps best known for her depictions of U.S. life in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Other Books of Willa Cather:
• Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
• Pioneers! (1913)
• My Ántonia (1918)
• One of Ours (1923)
• Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
• The Song of the Lark (1915)
• The Professor's House (1925)
• The Troll Garden and Selected Stories (1905)
• Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920)
• Not Under Forty (1936)

Date of Birth:

December 7, 1873

Date of Death:

April 27, 1947

Place of Birth:

Winchester, Virginia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., University of Nebraska, 1895

Table of Contents

About Author

Part 1

On the Divide

Part 2

Eric Hermannson's Soul

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Part 3

The Enchanted Bluff

Part 4

The Bohemian Girl

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Part 5

Flavia and Her Artists

Part 6

The Sculptor's Funeral

Part 7

"A Death in the Desert"

Part 8

The Garden Lodge

Part 9

The Marriage of Phaedra

Part 10

A Wagner Matinee

Part 11

Paul's Case

Editorial Reviews

• "His spirit was warped by bitter vindictiveness and puerile self-commiseration, and he spent his days in scorn of the labour that brought him bread and in pitiful devotion to the labour that brought him only disappointment, writing interminable scores which demanded of the orchestra everything under heaven except melody."
• "He knew by heart every individual clump of bunch grass in the miles of red shaggy prairie that stretched before his cabin. He knew it in all the deceitful loveliness of its early summer, in all the bitter barrenness of its autumn. He had seen it smitten by all the plagues of Egypt. He had seen it parched by drought, and sogged by rain, beaten by hail, and swept by fire, and in the grasshopper years he had seen it eaten as bare and clean as bones that the vultures have left. After the great fires he had seen it stretch for miles and miles, black and smoking as the floor of hell."

― Willa Cather, The Troll Garden: Short Stories

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