Books by Willa Cather
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review 1: Took me a while, but I got there in the end. I had read a few reviews of this book and wondered what to expect. At first I found it very convoluted and confusing, after finishing it I wondered why it took me so long to get into the rhythm of the book. I had to reread the first fe...
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review 1: I listened to this story on librovox.org. My daughter (14 year old) and I were listening to it for a girls book club. I enjoyed the characters, the immigrants from Bohemia and watching their transition into Nebraskas small town culture. There were some very hard parts of this ...
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review 1: (This review is for My Antonia only)I wanted to give the book three stars, because after reading it I felt dissatisfied. Nothing really happens. If I write even one sentence about the plot, I'll probably spoil it. Orphan boy falls in love with immigrant girl.But take aside the fa...
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review 1: I love this short story, it is about life, and family. It is about a man who is diagnosed with a heart problem and who, in his last moments with his family he reminisces about his life and about the life that he has left for his family. It is a story that really shows us what sho...
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review 1: This huge volume is really too much to get through, so I only skimmed it; the foreword is interesting as we learn that Cather stipulated in her will that her letters were never to be made public. The trust responsible for her writings has since decided that as 65 years or so hav...
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review 1: I wrote this review for the paper:They said she’d burned all her letters, but thank goodness that wasn’t true. She did not want them published, but we can be grateful that the editors of the “Selected Letters of Willa Cather” didn’t let her have the last word.Andrew Jewell and Ja...