An American author of the Interwar period, Willa Cather achieved
recognition for her nostalgic novels of frontier life on the Great
Plains. Her novels are noted for their atmospheric and vivid portrayals
of the landscape and the lives of settlers, immortalising Nebraska’s
pioneer life. In 1923 Cather achieved international acclaim and
financial security when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ‘One of
Ours’ (1922), a novel set during World War I. This comprehensive eBook
presents Cather’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare
texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative
introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material.
Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Cather’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All 12 novels, with individual contents tables
* Features rare short stories appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Includes Cather’s rare poetry collection – available in no other collection
* Rare non-fiction works
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Prairie Trilogy
The Novels
Alexander’s Bridge
O Pioneers!
The Song of the Lark
My Ántonia
One of Ours
A Lost Lady
The Professor’s House
My Mortal Enemy
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Shadows on the Rock
Lucy Gayheart
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
The Short Story Collections
The Troll Garden
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Obscure Destinies
The Old Beauty and Others
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
Uncollected Short Stories
The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order
The Poetry
April Twilights and Other Poems
The Non-Fiction
The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science
Not Under Forty
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
Miscellaneous Pieces
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Measure of the Magic.
Horrified by the misuse of magic they had witnessed during the First War of the Races, the Druids at Paranor devoted themselves to the study of the old sciences, from the period before the collapse of civilization a thousand years before. Only the Bremen and a few trusted associates still studied the arcane arts. And for his persistence, Bremen found himself outcast, avoided by all but the few free-thinkers among the Druids.
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Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightmare—the disappearance of a child—as it explores a family's struggle to endure, even against extraordinary odds. Filled with compassion, humor, and brilliant observations about the texture of real life, here is a story of rare power, one that will touch readers' hearts and make them celebrate the emotions that make us all one. Views: 316
Once upon a time in a very ordinary place, there was an ordinary man with an ordinary life. At least that is what Mr. Sinclair wanted to believe to be true, until a little bit of the extraordinary touches his life and it will shatter his view of reality. When the destiny he knew nothing about catches up with him, nothing will ever be the same again. The question is, will he be able to survive it.~* Book One of the Salak'patan Series *~'Truth is stranger than fiction', these words are an axiom on which a great many things may pivot. For Raven Sinclair these words have long since become a credo, a principle philosophy by which he has lived much of his life. As a creator of fiction, it might seem to some that these words would fade when faced with the realities he creates in his novels. But the Truth of his own reality is in fact stranger than the fiction he creates. Gifted with more than five senses, an outcast by choice, and someone compelled by a driving force he does not understand, Raven's truth is about to become a great deal more like the fiction he has created.A single decision leads to events he could never have predicted and shoves him into motion down a path that he has unknowingly been following even before he was born. And it leads him to the last thing he could have expected, the long awaited love of his life. He finds her in the very last place he might have thought to look, as part of a government conspiracy to capture and control people just like him. All too soon he must confront a government that wants nothing more than to make him a toy soldier, a past he knew nothing about, a reality far bigger than he could ever imagine, and forces that will alter him and the way he looks at the world around him forever.And even though for a time his changed life becomes quiet once more the forces of destiny are still guiding him along a path that leads right into the darkness. An ancient evil has been stirred up from the forgotten worlds and cosmic dust to strike at the very heart of his world, and it is not in his destined path to run from it. Views: 316
A collection of stories, both early and late, that show how James M. Cain made his name
There is a hungry tiger loose in the house, and that is not good news for anyone. A jealous husband let the animal out of his cage hoping he would eat his wife alive, but tigers aren’t used to taking orders. This jungle cat will get his meal, and he doesn’t care where it comes from.
“The Baby in the Icebox” begins with a murdered wildcat and ends with a dead human—and what comes in between is some of the most striking prose James M. Cain ever put to paper. It is one of the first stories this master of crime fiction ever wrote, and it shows all the hallmarks of the novels that would later make him famous—namely Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice. The tales in this collection are short, but Cain never needed more than a few pages to thrill. Views: 316
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Series: More Than Human, Book 1
Ella is the last of a dying breed of humans that live hidden deep in the forests of Washington State. All of her life, she has heard horror stories about the Others, the beasts that live beyond the safety of the mountains. In ancient times, humans and the Others lived together in peace, but a great battle divided them and the shape-shifting species won the war.
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Ty finds more than he expects when a human, thought to be extinct, turns up in the trap. What is even more confusing is his bear’s reaction to the female. When word escapes about his discovery, Ty must fight to protect the unusual woman who is more than an oddity – she is his mate!
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