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Cather, Willa The Professor's House (Virago Modern Classics) Virago Press Ltd April 17, 1997 Paperback From Library JournalCather's 1922 novel gets the red-carpet treatment here from scholars JamesWoodress, Karl Ronning, and Frederick M. Link, who offer textual analysis based on a recently discovered reworked draft, plus explanatory notes and historical material. A beauty, but the price is prohibitive. Too bad.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.Book Description1925. Willa Cather is one of the most interesting women writers in Americanliterary history. Both a teacher, a journalist and a critic as well as a writer, Cather plays an important part in the shaping of American modernistthought and writings. Her fiction is unique in its powerful representationof setting and character and rich in its language and imagery. In The Professor's House, the story's protagonist is Godfrey St. Peter, a man who grewup on the prairie, entered academia and in his fifties has attained professional success and what at first seems to be domestic happiness. But over the year in which the novel's events transpire-the year that follows his family's move to a new house and ends with his near-death in the old one he hasrefused to abandon-it becomes clear that St. Peter's success is hollow, his relations with his wife and children passionless and embittered. What meaning remains in the professor's life lies in the past, in his relationshipwith a gifted pupil who died young and whose discoveries have made St. Peter's family wealthy-but at an awful cost.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition. Price: 8.00 GBP
