Willa Cather

Gebundenes Buch

Death Comes For The Archbishop

Beschreibung

In 1848 three cardinals and a missionary decide the fate of a parish priest, Jean Marier Latour. He is to go to New Mexico to win for Catholicism the south-west of America. He reforms and revivifies, after 40 years of service achieving a reconciliation between his faith and the peasants.

Autor

WILLA CATHER (1873-1947) was born in Virginia and was about nine years old when her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, she worked for the Nebraska State Journal, then moved to Pittsburgh and finally to New York City. There she joined McClure's magazine. After meeting the author Sarah Orne Jewett, she decided to quit journalism and devote herself full time to fiction. Her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, appeared in 1912, but her place in American literature was established with her first Nebraska novel, O Pioneers! published in 1913, followed by her most famous pioneer novel, My Antonia, in 1918. In 1922 she won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours. Her other novels include Shadows on the Rock, The Song of the Lark, The Professor's House, My Mortal Enemy, and Lucy Gayheart. She died in 1947. INTRODUCER BIOGRAPHY NICHOLAS GASKILL is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College. He is the author of Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color and editor of the The Lure of Whitehead.

Produktdetails

• Everymanâ s Library Contemporary Classics
• Verlag: Everyman
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 136mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781857150896
• ISBN-10: 1857150899
• Artikelnr.: 72799592