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Synopsis
The Troll Garden is a classic collection of short stories by American author Willa Cather. Contained here in this volume are the following tales: Flavia and Her Artists, The Sculptor's Funeral, "A Death in the Desert", The Garden Lodge, The Marriage of Phædra, A Wagner Matinee, and Paul's Case.
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From the Back Cover
This collection of Willa Cather stories -- her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career -- is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantes -- all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer gathering her formidable powers. With the psychological precision of her early master Henry James and the practical wisdom and wit of her contemporary Edith Wharton, Cather shows us innocents seduced, sophisticates undone, marriages sundered, idealism compromised, and the rare soul uplifted by art.
About the Author
James Woodress is a professor emeritus of American literature at the University of California, Davis, and the author of many books, including Willa Cather: A Literary Life (Nebraska 1987).
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- PublisherDigireads.Com
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1420929585
- ISBN 13 9781420929584
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages84
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