Willa Cather

The first of Cather's renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman". When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.

The story of a French priest who goes to New Mexico and with the help of another priest, they win the Southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe.

When orphaned, ten-year-old Jim Burden arrives in Nebraska to live on his grandparents' farm, he doesn't know what to expect. The Great Plains are so vast that he feels overwhelmed-marooned-blotted out. And what should he make of his new neighbors, the Shimerdas? They don't speak English, and their ways are foreign to him. Yet their fourteen-year-old daughter, Antonia, is pretty, high-spirited-and eager for Jim to teach her English. Will Jim adjust...

In Willa Cather's first novel, "Alexander's Bridge", Construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges, Bartley Alexander strays from his wife Winifred to resume his acquaintance with former lover Hilda Burgoyne. The consequence of infidelity is examined in this classic romantic novel.

Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation