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Coming, Aphrodite! by Willa Cather

Coming, Aphrodite!

By Willa Cather

By Willa Cather

By Willa Cather

By Willa Cather

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    About Coming, Aphrodite!

    Best known for the distinctive portraits of the people and land of the American West in her prairie novels, Willa Cather is one of the greatest American writers of this century. The fourteen short stories in this richly diverse collection, along with an exemplary introduction by author Cynthia Griffin Wolff, allow for a more complex view of Cather. As a writer she was intrigued by nature’s ruthlessness and mankind’s limitless potential for brutality and had a passion for the beauty of art. Ranging from the simplicity of Cather’s first published story, “Peter” (1892), to the extraordinary eroticism of “Coming, Aphrodite!” (1920), this Twentieth-Century Classics collection is an engaging and triumphant testament to the genius of an American literary icon.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Coming, Aphrodite!

    Best known for the distinctive portraits of the people and land of the American West in her prairie novels, Willa Cather is one of the greatest American writers of this century. The fourteen short stories in this richly diverse collection, along with an exemplary introduction by author Cynthia Griffin Wolff, allow for a more complex view of Cather. As a writer she was intrigued by nature’s ruthlessness and mankind’s limitless potential for brutality and had a passion for the beauty of art. Ranging from the simplicity of Cather’s first published story, “Peter” (1892), to the extraordinary eroticism of “Coming, Aphrodite!” (1920), this Twentieth-Century Classics collection is an engaging and triumphant testament to the genius of an American literary icon.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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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

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Jan 01, 1999 | 336 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780141181561

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Jan 01, 1999 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9781101498439

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    Table Of Contents

    Coming, Aphrodite!Introduction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    A Note on the Text
    YOUTH AND THE BRIGHT MEDUSA

    Coming, Aphrodite!
    The Diamond Mine
    A Gold Slipper
    Scandal
    Paul’s Case
    A Wagner Matinée
    The Sculptor’s Funeral
    “A Death in the Desert”

    UNCOLLECTED STORIES

    Peter (1892)
    The Profile (1907)
    The Enchanted Bluff (1909)
    The Joy of Nelly Deane (1911)
    Behind the Singer Tower (1912)

    FROM OBSCURE DESTINIES (1932)Old Mrs. Harris

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