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"Sometimes, when I have watched the bright beginning of a love story, when I have seen a common feeling exalted into beauty by imagination, generosity, and the flaming courage of youth, I have heard again that strange complaint breathed by a dying woman into the stillness of night, like a confession of the soul:
'Why must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy.' "
My Mortal Enemy is the eighth novel by American author Willa Cather. It was first published in1926.
Willa Cather's protagonist in My Mortal Enemy is Myra Henshawe, who as a young woman gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love.
In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherworldly fulfillment. My Mortal Enemy is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.
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"It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?"
"People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know."
"Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world"
"Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton."
― Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy
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- PublisherE-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
- Publication date1926
- ISBN 10 6057566653
- ISBN 13 9786057566652
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages86
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