{"product_id":"collected-stories-of-willa-cather-isbn-9780679736486","title":"Collected Stories of Willa Cather","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction,\u003ci\u003e Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese nineteen stories resonate with all the great themes that Cather staked out like tracts of fertile land: the plight of people hungry for beauty in a country that has no room for it; the mysterious arc of human lives; and the ways the American frontier transformed the strangers who came to it, turning them imperceptibly into Americans. In these fictions, Cather displays her vast moral vision, her unerring sense of place, and her ability to find the one detail or episode that makes a closed life open wide in a single exhilarating moment.All the stories Willa Cather wanted published in book form -- collected for the first time in one volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA ruined beauty whose dignity has survived a lifetime of loss and disenchantment. A Czech immigrant who finds a paradoxical contentment on the harsh expanse of the Nebraska prairie. A solitary young painter spying raptly and guiltily on his exquisite neighbor. These are some of the lives that Willa Cather renders, with a fine balance of compassion and detachment, in these nineteen stories. Here are the landscapes that have awed readers of novels like \u003cb\u003eO Pioneers!\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/b\u003e, from frontier farms to the red rock canyons of the Southwest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are the great themes that Cather staked out like tracts of land: the plight of people hungry for beauty in a country that has no room for it; the mysterious arc of human lives; the ways in which the American frontier transformed the strangers who came to it, turning them imperceptibly into Americans. In these fictions, Cather displays her vast moral vision, her unerring sense of place, and her ability to find the one detail or episode that makes a closed life open wide in a single exhilarating moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVintage Classics are quality paperback editions of the world's greatest written works. They are durably bound and are printed exclusively on acid-free paper.\u003cb\u003eWILLA CATHER\u003c\/b\u003e, author of twelve novels, including \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!, My Ántonia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/i\u003e, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300531327205,"sku":"NP9780679736486","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679736486.jpg?v=1767723909","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/collected-stories-of-willa-cather-isbn-9780679736486","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}