The Professor’s House (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Willa Cather
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: A few years after World War I
- Setting: Hamilton, a Midwestern university town near Lake Michigan
- Principal Characters: Godfrey St. Peter, Lillian St. Peter, Rosamond, Kathleen, Louie Marcellus, Scott McGregor, Tom Outland, Augusta
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
The Story:
The Oxford prize for history brought Professor Godfrey St. Peter not only a certain international reputation but also the sum of five thousand pounds. The five thousand pounds, in turn, built the St. Peter family a new house, into which the professor had been frankly reluctant to move.
For half a lifetime, the attic of the old house had been his favorite spot—it was there that he had done his best writing, with his daughters’ dress forms for his only company—and it was in this workroom that Augusta, the family sewing woman, found him when she came to...
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