Уилла Кэсер
50 кн.
В сборник вошли произведения писателей США (Марк Твен, Брет Гарт, О.Генри, Джек Лондон и др.), посвященные новой эпохе «покорения» и освоения американского Запада. Проза предлагаемых авторов показывает всю иллюзорность надежд простых американцев на свободу и богатство.
| Автор | О. Генри, Макс Брэнд и др. |
| Жанр | Приключения |
| Год | 1989 |
Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством известной американской писательницы Уиллы Кэсер (1873–1947). Роман «Моя Антония» (1918) рассказывает о жизни поселенцев-иммигрантов, осваивающих земли американского Запада, а впервые публикуемый на русском языке роман «Погибшая леди» (1923) посвящен поколению строителей первой на Западе железной дороги. Оба произведения — это, по сути, мастерски сделанные романы-портреты: два женских образа, две судьбы.
| Автор | Уилла Кэсер |
| Жанр | Исторические любовные романы |
| Год | 1993 |
Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством известной американской писательницы Уиллы Кэсер (1873–1947). Роман «Моя Антония» (1918) рассказывает о жизни поселенцев-иммигрантов, осваивающих земли американского Запада, а впервые публикуемый на русском языке роман «Погибшая леди» (1923) посвящен поколению строителей первой на Западе железной дороги. Оба произведения — это, по сути, мастерски сделанные романы-портреты: два женских образа, две судьбы.
| Автор | Уилла Кэсер |
| Жанр | Проза |
| Год | 1993 |
Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not brought peace, as passion and love intervene.
| Автор | Уилла Кэсер |
Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not brought peace, as passion and love intervene.
| Автор | Уилла Кэсер |
"O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in...
| Автор | Уилла Кэсер |
First published in 1913, “O Pioneers!” is the first novel in Willa Cather’s “Great Plains” trilogy. Followed by “The Song of the Lark” in 1915 and “My Ántonia” in 1918, “O Pioneers!” introduces us to the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants who live in the fictional farm town of Hanover, Nebraska at the beginning of the 20th century. The story centers on the life of Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm with her mother and three brothers when her father dies. Many years of...
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Set on the Nebraska prairie where Willa Cather (1873–1947) grew up, this powerful early novel tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the lands they have struggled to farm. In Alexandra's long flight to survive and succeed, O Pioneers! relates an important chapter in the history of the American frontier.Evoking the harsh grandeur of the prairie, this landmark of American fiction unfurls a saga of love, greed,...
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When Professor Godfrey St. Peter and wife move to a new house, he becomes uncomfortable with the route his life is taking. He keeps on his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life. The marriages of his two daughters have removed them from the home and added two new sons-in-law, precipitating a mid-life crisis that leaves the Professor feeling as though he has lost the will to live because he has nothing to look forward to. Adding to that, the death of his favourite...
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First published in 1925, “The Professor's House” is the profound study of a middle-aged man’s unhappiness by critically acclaimed American author Willa Cather. The novel tells the story of its central character, Professor Godfrey St. Peter, in three parts. In the first part, the Professor feels that he is losing control over his life and resists the direction it is taking. He is displeased with his family’s move to a new house, with his daughters being grown and married, and with the death...
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"The Song of the Lark" by Willa Cather. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...
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