Great Plains Trilogy O Pioneers!, (Paperback)

from ctpress

It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth had become so bitter, because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its ...

from Booker13

Hmmm....being a chemist in college I never had to read this book as part of a scholastically driven forced march. That being said, I picked this up in St. Charles on a whim and when I finished it I...

from hemlokgang

This is probably the fourth or fifth Cather novel I have read. I cannot say it is my favorite, probably because the plot was not nearly as engaging as it was in her later works. However, I don't th...

from melopher

This novella was my introduction to Willa Cather, and I found it to be so much more than I thought it would be. The language was simple yet powerful, the descriptions were poetic yet clear, the the...

from lkernagh

I should probably start off this review by admitting that I have not been reading Cather's Prairie Trilogy in order, having read My Antonia around this time last year. Cather's strength – IMO anywa...