Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics O Pioneers!: Introduction by Elaine Showalter, (Hardcover)

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 own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness. The prairi...

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 was pleasantly surprised. I'd expected a celebration of mother earth (which was in there) or a hymn...

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 think anyone captures the essence of the American plains like Cather can. Her protagonist in this book...

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 theme strong and touching. The story itself was not one that I thought to find in a book written 100 ye...

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 anyways – is her wonderfully descriptive prose. She knew how to paint a picture with words! Like My Anton...