She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. she knew a young Bohemian immigrant girl named Antonia Shimerda. Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. A story from Lydia Peelles forthcoming collection- REASONS FOR AND ADVANTAGES OF BREATHING- will be printed at the back of this volume. Willa Cather was a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, who is best known for her depictions of the pioneer experience. Also- in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the Summer of the Short Story. Alongside THE BOHEMIAN GIRL- Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky- Leo Tolstoy- Herman Melville- Stephen Crane- and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed- boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. This collection includes work from the early part of Cathers career and clearly marks themes and landscapes that she would detail and explore for the remainder of her life. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors- the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine- Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier.
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