Willa Cather (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Willa Cather was a prolific writer, especially as a young woman. By the time her first novel was published when she was thirty- eight, she had written more than forty short stories, at least five hundred columns and reviews, numerous magazine articles and essays, and a volume of poetry. She collected three volumes of her short stores: The Troll Garden (1905), Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920), and Obscure Destinies (1932). Those volumes contain the few short stories she allowed to be anthologized, most frequently “Paul’s Case,”...

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