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Fiction - Classics
Parker's quips and light verse have become embedded in the American
literary landscape. In these selected stories is the chance to draw
on her insight into the social and emotional realities of life. The
following stories are featured in this collection.
At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two
thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent
nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the
work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man.
These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the
elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early
explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex
fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John
Callahan).
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, a
dazzling and audacious new novel that extends the story of Isabel
Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady,
into unexpected territory.
Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naïve girl's experience of the world.
Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naïve girl's experience of the world.
In 1852, young Walt Whitman—a down-on-his-luck housebuilder
in Brooklyn—was hard at work writing two books. One would
become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American
history, a free-verse revelation beloved the world
over, Leaves of Grass.
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires
from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to
write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his
mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with
Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.
In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia performs crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction. the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young woman who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art.
First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and
most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage
that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic
happiness.
As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family.
As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family.
A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects
the conventions of her age even as she defies them. To the
people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western
plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious
and comfortably remote.
"Superbly written, with that sensitivity to sunset and afterglow
that has always been Miss Cather's."
—The New York Times
Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop.
—The New York Times
Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Willa Cather's lyrical and bittersweet novel of a
middle-aged man losing control of his life is a brilliant
study in emotional dislocation and renewal.
Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them.
Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them.
Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of
a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern
desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the
Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of
red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and
Indian in custom and belief.
