The Song of the Lark : (Willa Cather Masterpiece Collection) (Paperback)

from jnwelch

[The Song of the Lark] is [Willa Cather]'s third novel, apparently written between [O Pioneers!] and [My Antonia]. It demonstrates the surprising range of her writing beyond the prairies of Nebraska. This one is about a small town Colorado girl, Thea Kronborg, possessed of a compelling musical gi...

from Castlelass

Published in 1915, this is a beautifully written novel about the life of Thea Kronberg, a feisty female protagonist who overcomes the social restrictions of the time and eventually makes her mark as an opera singer. It opens in the 1890s, when Thea is eleven years old. She is one of seven childre...

from rsairs

Some of the elements are familiar--the misfit child in a backwater who by dint of energy and talent rises to international fame--the changes it puts her through. Is it talent or drive or a unique combination of the two? She gets some breaks, but she seizes and uses them. As her fame rises the old...

from melopher

This is the second work of Willa Cather's that I've read (previously read O Pioneers!) but it convinced me to read all of Cather's works (My Antonia is next). The theme wasn't quite as strong as in O Pioneers, but there were moments that were so insightful, beautiful, and touching that it was ver...

from lkernagh

I am writing this review almost two months after reading the story so I will just provide some general observations, as memory serves. The Song of the Lark is Cather's third novel, and is considered to be the second book in her Prairie's Trilogy. The story itself is straightforward. Readers follo...