Alexander'S Bridge And The Barrel Organ - Cather, Willa; Noyes, Alfred
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A quietly electrifying meditation on love, memory, and the costs of desire, Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ invites readers into a city of echoes and fractures. Willa Cather's early twentieth century tale navigates marriage and betrayal, dream vs reality, and the stubborn pull of memory and regret. In taut, precise prose, she maps a world of American urban life where ambition and imagination collide, inviting readers to weigh illusion against consequence. This edition stands as more than a reprint: it is a carefully restored experience, designed for today's readers and for generations…mehr

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A quietly electrifying meditation on love, memory, and the costs of desire, Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ invites readers into a city of echoes and fractures. Willa Cather's early twentieth century tale navigates marriage and betrayal, dream vs reality, and the stubborn pull of memory and regret. In taut, precise prose, she maps a world of American urban life where ambition and imagination collide, inviting readers to weigh illusion against consequence. This edition stands as more than a reprint: it is a carefully restored experience, designed for today's readers and for generations to come. The book's value rests in its form and its themes-short, sharply observed stories that read like a bridge between Henry James's psychological nuance and Edith Wharton's social sensibility, with a distinctly American sensibility. It rewards both the casual reader seeking a powerful, standalone story and the classics lover assembling a broader picture of classic american literature and early twentieth century fiction. For study and discussion, its prestige sits beside a literature study guide edition and its place on a college course reading list, illustrating how a single collection can illuminate the wider currents of early twentieth century america. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this volume is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure for discerning readers and serious students alike.
Autorenporträt
Willa Sibert Cather is well-known for her Great Plains-set books, such as O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark, and My ntonia. Her novel One of Ours, which takes place during World War I, won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. When Willa Cather was nine years old, her family relocated from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska. Afterwards, the family made Red Cloud, Minnesota, their home. Cather spent ten years in Pittsburgh after earning her degree from the University of Nebraska Lincoln, where she worked as a high school English teacher and magazine editor to support herself. She made her lifelong home in New York City when she moved there at the age of 33, though she also traveled extensively and made frequent trips to her summer house on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. She lived her final 39 years with Edith Lewis, her domestic partner, before receiving a breast cancer diagnosis and passing away from a brain hemorrhage. Beside her, in a Jaffrey, New Hampshire, plot, lies Lewis. As a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience, Cather attained prominence.