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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Página xiii
... once had done , to view the clear night sky stretching away to the distant horizon , " which 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 ...
... once had done , to view the clear night sky stretching away to the distant horizon , " which 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 ...
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... once had had in her Latin class , a nervous youth who was always trying to make himself interesting and to prove that he knew members of the local stock company ; the other was herself , particularly the feelings she had about New York ...
... once had had in her Latin class , a nervous youth who was always trying to make himself interesting and to prove that he knew members of the local stock company ; the other was herself , particularly the feelings she had about New York ...
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... once had played the piano at the Boston Conservatory now " stretched and twisted into mere tentacles to hold and lift and knead with . " The pathos in this story is overwhelming as the narrator - nephew with misguided kindness takes his ...
... once had played the piano at the Boston Conservatory now " stretched and twisted into mere tentacles to hold and lift and knead with . " The pathos in this story is overwhelming as the narrator - nephew with misguided kindness takes his ...
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... once she went back to magazine journalism , there was no time to revise that manuscript or to write another novel . She could only manage a few stories during the next few years . Witter Bynner , the poet , who then was fresh out of ...
... once she went back to magazine journalism , there was no time to revise that manuscript or to write another novel . She could only manage a few stories during the next few years . Witter Bynner , the poet , who then was fresh out of ...
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... once again for NS in the mid - thirties , there was not much left to change in the portrait , but still she man- aged three more small cuts that modify Aunt Georgiana's emotional display during the concert , and the powerful ending of ...
... once again for NS in the mid - thirties , there was not much left to change in the portrait , but still she man- aged three more small cuts that modify Aunt Georgiana's emotional display during the concert , and the powerful ending of ...
Conteúdo
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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