The Troll Garden: Short StoriesU of Nebraska Press, 1 de jun. de 2000 - 176 páginas 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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... girls , and visited Lena Hen- son , a woman of dubious reputation . When a passionate exhorter from the fundamentalist Gospellers captures Eric's soul , Eric puts away his violin and becomes another one of the dull clods from the Old ...
... girls , and visited Lena Hen- son , a woman of dubious reputation . When a passionate exhorter from the fundamentalist Gospellers captures Eric's soul , Eric puts away his violin and becomes another one of the dull clods from the Old ...
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... girls know these are forbidden fruits , but Laura cannot resist the temptation and buys the fruit , paying with a golden curl . The dire consequences of this act are that Laura can no longer hear the seductive cries of the goblin men ...
... girls know these are forbidden fruits , but Laura cannot resist the temptation and buys the fruit , paying with a golden curl . The dire consequences of this act are that Laura can no longer hear the seductive cries of the goblin men ...
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... girl . He represented for her youth , gaiety , golden tal- ent . His death three years later was a bitter blow , and the story cap- tures some of her feelings about him . She must have written it soon after he died . Cather placed this ...
... girl . He represented for her youth , gaiety , golden tal- ent . His death three years later was a bitter blow , and the story cap- tures some of her feelings about him . She must have written it soon after he died . Cather placed this ...
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... girl avid for a richer environment seemed to stick out , to deform , to make the picture one- sided . " 14 One of the purposes of this edition is to gather into the appendix all the changes that Cather made in successive revisions of ...
... girl avid for a richer environment seemed to stick out , to deform , to make the picture one- sided . " 14 One of the purposes of this edition is to gather into the appendix all the changes that Cather made in successive revisions 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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