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Sapphira and the Slave Girl

By Willa Cather

By Willa Cather

By Willa Cather

By Willa Cather

By Willa Cather
Read by Bernadette Dunne

By Willa Cather
Read by Bernadette Dunne

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Dec 07, 2010 | ISBN 9780307739650

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Aug 24, 2011 | ISBN 9780307805256

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    About Sapphira and the Slave Girl

    In her final novel, Willa Cather departed from her usual Great Plains settings to plumb the turbulent relationships between slaves and their owners in the antebellum South.

    Sapphira and the Slave Girl     is set in Virginia just before the Civil War. Sapphira is a slave owner who feels she has come down in the world and channels her resentments into jealousy of her beautiful mulatto slave, Nancy. Sapphira’s daughter Rachel, an abolitionist, opposes her mother’s increasingly shocking attempts to persecute Nancy. The struggles of these three strong-willed women provide rich material for Cather’s narrative art and psychological insight.

    About Sapphira and the Slave Girl

    In her final novel, Willa Cather departed from her usual Great Plains settings to plumb the turbulent relationships between slaves and their owners in the antebellum South.

    Sapphira and the Slave Girl     is set in Virginia just before the Civil War. Sapphira is a slave owner who feels she has come down in the world and channels her resentments into jealousy of her beautiful mulatto slave, Nancy. Sapphira’s daughter Rachel, an abolitionist, opposes her mother’s increasingly shocking attempts to persecute Nancy. The struggles of these three strong-willed women provide rich material for Cather’s narrative art and psychological insight.

    About Sapphira and the Slave Girl

    Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather’s later works.

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    About Willa Cather

    WILLA CATHER was born in Virginia in 1873, and was about nine years old when her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and… More about Willa Cather

    About Willa Cather

    WILLA CATHER was born in Virginia in 1873, and was about nine years old when her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and… More about Willa Cather

    About Willa Cather

    WILLA CATHER was born in Virginia in 1873, and was about nine years old when her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and… More about Willa Cather

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 07, 2010 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307739650

    Category: Historical Fiction | Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 24, 2011 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307805256

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Sep 13, 2016 | 351 Minutes | ISBN 9781524721602
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