Willa Cather Scholarly Edition: A Lost Lady (Hardcover)

from klarusu

This was my first foray into Willa Cather's writing and I found this a thoughtful and engaging novel that works on several levels. It is a character study of a woman at a time of change in the American west; a character study of America at the time of the railroad boom as it evolves alongside cha...

from ncgraham

Thirty or forty years ago, in one of those grey towns along the Burlington railroad, which are so much greyer today than they were then, there was a house well known from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere. Mm. I knew from the very first sentence that I was ...

from wendyrey

An elegantly written novella set in the mid-west of the USA. A young woman is married to a much older man and her life and her loves and deceits are observed by a boy and later young man who is besotted by her and though he becomes aware of her faults and folies never loses his affection for her.

from beckyclayton

A Lost Lady shares a similar narrative device as Cather's My Antonia -- a young man who has gone East for his education reminisces about a woman he was in love with as a child growing up in the frontier Mid West. The women are different -- Antonia is a farm girl, Mrs. Forrester is a polished lady...

from Becky221

I love this book for its insights into human nature. Niel finds that Marian Forrester is not faithful to the trustworthy and admirable Captain and yet she is ultimately charming and irresistible. She does what she must to survive.