Willa Cather eBooks
eBooks di Willa Cather editi da Kore Enterprises di Formato Mobipocket
Nacque in Virginia ma presto si trasferì con la famiglia a Red Cloud, in Nebraska. Prima di dedicarsi totalmente alla scrittura, insegnò alla scuola superiore di Pittsburgh, dove scrisse per un giornale locale; dal 1906 lavorò per il «McClure’s Magazine» a New York. Nel 1923 vinse il Premio Pulitzer con il romanzo Uno dei nostri. Si trasferì quindi in Europa e soggiornò a lungo in Francia, ad Avignone. Il mio nemico mortale fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1926.
Alexander's Bridge. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Willa Cather - Kore Enterprises, 2018 -
Alexander's Bridge is the story of a great engineer who reaches a crisis in his life when his responsibilities increase and his success begins a decline. Through his relations with two women--Winifred, his wife, and Hilda, a young Irish actress--Alexander learns to know himself. Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had lived there as a student, but for twenty years and more, since he had been Professor of Philosophy in a Western university, he had seldom come East except to take a steamer for some foreign port. Wilson was standing quite still, contemplating with a whimsical smile the slanting street, with its worn paving, its irregular, gravely colored houses, and the row of naked trees on which the thin sunlight was still shining. The gleam of the river at the foot of the hill made him blink a little, not so much because it was too bright as because he found it so pleasant. The few passers-by glanced at him unconcernedly, and even the children who hurried along with their school-bags under their arms seemed to find it perfectly natural that a tall brown gentleman should be standing there, looking up through his glasses at the gray housetops.
The Song of the Lark. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Willa Cather - Kore Enterprises, 2018 -
The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. It is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, following O Pioneers! (1913) and preceding My Ántonia (1918). The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers and develops her singing voice. Her story is told against the backdrop of the burgeoning American West in which she was born in a town along the rail line, of fast-growing Chicago near the turn of the twentieth century, and of the audience for singers of her skills in the US compared to Europe. Thea Kronborg grows up, learning herself, her strengths and her talent, until she reaches success. The title comes from a painting of the same name by Jules Breton in 1884 and part of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.