First published in 1923, A Lost Lady is one of Willa Cather's classic novels about life on the Great Plains. It harks back to Nebraska's early history and contrasts those days with an unsentimental portrait of the materialistic world that supplanted the frontier. In her subtle portrait of Marian Forrester, whose life unfolds in the midst of this disquieting transition, Cather created one of her most memorable and finely drawn characters. This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of A Lost Lady is edited according to standards set ...
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First published in 1923, A Lost Lady is one of Willa Cather's classic novels about life on the Great Plains. It harks back to Nebraska's early history and contrasts those days with an unsentimental portrait of the materialistic world that supplanted the frontier. In her subtle portrait of Marian Forrester, whose life unfolds in the midst of this disquieting transition, Cather created one of her most memorable and finely drawn characters. This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of A Lost Lady is edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association. The historical essay describes the origin, writing, and reception of the novel as well as motion pictures that were later based on it; and a selection of archival photographs illuminates the connection between the novel and the people and places from Cather's formative years in Nebraska. Explanatory notes identify locations, literary references, persons, events, and specialized terminology. The textual essays describe the production and subsequent revisions of the text.
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Written in 1923, "A Lost Lady" is a novel from Willa Cather's (1873 -- 1947) middle period of writing -- between "My Antonia" and "Death Comes to the Archbishop". This may be the least known but best portion of her output.
As does "My Antonia", "A Lost Lady" pictures the American frontier in the middle west and its closing due to urbanization, the demise of the pioneer spirit, and commercialization.
Together with its picture of the changing of the West, the book is a coming of age novel of a special sort and a portrait of a remarkable, because human and flawed, woman.
As with many of Cather's works the story is told by a male narrator, Neil Herbert.
The novel portrays Neil from adolescence as an admirer of, and perhaps infatuated by Marian Forrester, the heroine and the wife of a former railroad magnate now settled on a large farm in South Dakota. Neil matures and leaves to go to school in the East. His idea of Ms. Forrester changes as he learns that there is both more and less to her than the glittering self-assured woman that meets his young eyes.
The book is also the story of Marian herself, of her marriage, her self-assuredness, and her vulnerability. She is independent and a survivor and carries on within herself through harsh times and difficult circumstances, including the change in character of her adopted home in the mid-west.
This is a tightly written, thoughtful American novel.
Robin Friedman
bluelady
Apr 13, 2009
read the book
The book came in excellent shape for being a used book.Was very well pleased.
Love Willa Cather writtings.Good clean reading.
My cover was of a Window with a pot of flowers .
rainbow
Jul 23, 2007
wistful look back on life
a woman in old age looks back on life with wisdom, regret and compassion most moving having lived an opulent, wealthy life and then to reach old age with nothing left or to show for it
