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A Lost Lady

By Willa Cather

2022-06-13 20:10:10

A Lost Lady tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester who live in the Western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad. The story is told from the perspective of Niel Herbert, a young man who grows ... Read more

A Lost Lady tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester who live in the Western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad. The story is told from the perspective of Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester, for whom he feels very deeply, and also of the West itself from the idealized age of noble pioneers to the age of capitalist exploitation.

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File size320.351 KB
Print pages108
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0486831688
Willa Sibert Cather (Dec 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia. In 1923 she w...

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