Willa Cather

The Burglar's Christmas (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Willa Cather's "The Burglar's Christmas", a young drifter finds himself alone on Christmas Eve, penniless and starving. Though he has failed at everything in life, including crime, he decides to break into a home and rob it to raise money for food. When he is caught in the act by the lady of the house, they both come to a terrible realization. The burglar's desperate act leads to a transformative act of holiday love and charity. First published in Home Monthly in 1896.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dreamscape Media
• Seitenzahl: 61
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781974928200
• Artikelnr.: 54094797

Autorenporträt

Willa Siebert Cather (1873-1947) was an American author and Pulitzer Prize winner. She was noted for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.