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 xii
... Told from a minor character's point of view , the tale marks an advance in Cather's narrative technique , and its preoccupa- tion with art anticipates the central concerns of The Troll Garden . That these concerns were becoming of ...
... Told from a minor character's point of view , the tale marks an advance in Cather's narrative technique , and its preoccupa- tion with art anticipates the central concerns of The Troll Garden . That these concerns were becoming of ...
الصفحة xv
... told him that some of the stories had already been rejected by McClure's , he said that he had never seen them . He then called in his manuscript readers and asked them in her presence to give an ac- counting of their stewardship . That ...
... told him that some of the stories had already been rejected by McClure's , he said that he had never seen them . He then called in his manuscript readers and asked them in her presence to give an ac- counting of their stewardship . That ...
الصفحة xix
... told through the perspective of Imogen Willard , daughter of one of Flavia's old friends , who is invited to Flavia's menagerie because she has the distinction of being a woman who has earned a doctorate in philology . Imogen ( probably ...
... told through the perspective of Imogen Willard , daughter of one of Flavia's old friends , who is invited to Flavia's menagerie because she has the distinction of being a woman who has earned a doctorate in philology . Imogen ( probably ...
الصفحة xxv
... told her that it was not nice to write about such things as she put into the description of Aunt Geor- giana . She wrote a friend that the whole affair had been the nearest she ever had come to personal disgrace . She seemed to have ...
... told her that it was not nice to write about such things as she put into the description of Aunt Geor- giana . She wrote a friend that the whole affair had been the nearest she ever had come to personal disgrace . She seemed to have ...
الصفحة 10
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عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
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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Adriance Ántonia artists asked Aunt Georgiana brother Brunhilda Caroline Charley colour concert copy-text Cordelia Street d'Esquerré death Desert door edition eyes face feeling felt Flavia Franz Josef Land friends Gaius Marius Garden Lodge Gaylord girl grey hands Harve Harvey Merrick head heard Hilgarde Howard Noble Imogen James Katharine knew Lady Ellen Lady Mary laughed looked Lydy Elling MacMaster magazine Marriage of Phædra McClure Miss Broadwood morning MV and TG Nebraska Nebraska State Journal never night once opera Paul Paul's piano picture Pittsburgh Red Willow County remember rose Roux S. S. McClure Sculptor's Funeral seemed shoulders smile sort Steavens stood story studio Tannhäuser things took Treffinger Treffinger's Troll Garden turned Wagner Matinee wanted watching Willa Cather Windermere window woman women young youth