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 xiii
... seemed to reach around the world . " As they watch , the wind carries the odor of the cornfields to them , and the music of the dance sounds faintly from below . There is tension in this scene and a skillful development of the conflict ...
... seemed to reach around the world . " As they watch , the wind carries the odor of the cornfields to them , and the music of the dance sounds faintly from below . There is tension in this scene and a skillful development of the conflict ...
الصفحة xv
... seemed assured . She was fairly launched at last after eight postgrad- uate years as newspaper columnist , provincial magazine editor , high school teacher , and apprentice story writer . But first she had to get back on the train and ...
... seemed assured . She was fairly launched at last after eight postgrad- uate years as newspaper columnist , provincial magazine editor , high school teacher , and apprentice story writer . But first she had to get back on the train and ...
الصفحة xxiv
... seemed not to have read more than two of the stories and characterized the volume as " seven truly entertain- ing studies of somewhat abnormal human nature . " The Critic found " real promise " and " no small degree of insight " in its ...
... seemed not to have read more than two of the stories and characterized the volume as " seven truly entertain- ing studies of somewhat abnormal human nature . " The Critic found " real promise " and " no small degree of insight " in its ...
الصفحة xxv
... seemed to have done something horrid without realizing it , but someday , she supposed it would all seem humorous . 12 That she could not have intended an insult is perfectly clear from the warm , affectionate tone of all her letters to ...
... seemed to have done something horrid without realizing it , but someday , she supposed it would all seem humorous . 12 That she could not have intended an insult is perfectly clear from the warm , affectionate tone of all her letters to ...
الصفحة xxvi
... seemed to belong to her . She herself had outgrown the harsh mood that had inspired the western ones . The starvation of a girl avid for a richer environment seemed to stick out , to deform , to make the picture one- sided . " 14 One of ...
... seemed to belong to her . She herself had outgrown the harsh mood that had inspired the western ones . The starvation of a girl avid for a richer environment seemed to stick out , to deform , to make the picture one- sided . " 14 One of ...
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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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