The Troll Garden: Short StoriesU of Nebraska Press, 01/06/2000 - 176 من الصفحات This collection of Willa Cather stories?her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career?is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication.øAs different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantes?all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer gathering her formidable powers. With the psychological precision of her early master Henry James and the practical wisdom and wit of her contemporary Edith Wharton, Cather shows us innocents seduced, sophisticates undone, marriages sundered, idealism compromised, and the rare soul uplifted by art. |
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الصفحة xxii
... Aunt Georgiana a former musician who has been denied for more than thirty years any possibility of entering the garden . She has been exiled to the barbarian country of a bleak prairie farm , where she has toiled like a slave helping ...
... Aunt Georgiana a former musician who has been denied for more than thirty years any possibility of entering the garden . She has been exiled to the barbarian country of a bleak prairie farm , where she has toiled like a slave helping ...
الصفحة xxiii
... Aunt Georgiana and in fact retains her skill as an amateur pianist . Her life is like that of one of Cather's Pittsburgh friends , Ethel Litchfield , who had given up a career as a concert pi- anist to marry a prominent physician . The ...
... Aunt Georgiana and in fact retains her skill as an amateur pianist . Her life is like that of one of Cather's Pittsburgh friends , Ethel Litchfield , who had given up a career as a concert pi- anist to marry a prominent physician . The ...
الصفحة xxiv
... aunt's wretched figure , her ill - fitting false teeth , her skin yellowed by the weather .... If the writers of fiction who use western Nebraska as material would look up now and then and not keep their eyes and noses in the cattle ...
... aunt's wretched figure , her ill - fitting false teeth , her skin yellowed by the weather .... If the writers of fiction who use western Nebraska as material would look up now and then and not keep their eyes and noses in the cattle ...
الصفحة xxv
... Aunt Franc had sat for the portrait of Aunt Geor- giana because Aunt Franc had graduated from Mount Holyoke Fe- male Seminary before marrying Cather's uncle George in 1873 and moving to Nebraska . The family had told her that it was not ...
... Aunt Franc had sat for the portrait of Aunt Geor- giana because Aunt Franc had graduated from Mount Holyoke Fe- male Seminary before marrying Cather's uncle George in 1873 and moving to Nebraska . The family had told her that it was not ...
الصفحة xxvii
... Aunt Georgiana between MV and TG in a few details . The follow- ing passages were deleted : " when I got her into the carriage she looked not unlike one of those charred , smoked bodies that fire - men lift from the debris of a burned ...
... Aunt Georgiana between MV and TG in a few details . The follow- ing passages were deleted : " when I got her into the carriage she looked not unlike one of those charred , smoked bodies that fire - men lift from the debris of a burned ...
المحتوى
Flavia and Her Artists | 7 |
The Sculptors Funeral | 32 |
The Garden Lodge | 46 |
A Death in the Desert | 57 |
The Marriage of Phaedra | 77 |
A Wagner Matinee | 94 |
Pauls Case | 102 |
Abbreviations | 122 |
Notes to the Text | 123 |
Textual Commentary | 131 |
Emendations | 137 |
Notes on the Emendations | 141 |
Table of Revisions | 145 |
Word Divisions | 175 |
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