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A Lost Lady: A Classic American Novel of the Great Plains
Hardcover
General FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515435242
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Marian Forrester dazzles the prairie town of Sweet Water with beauty, grace, and a social brilliance that seems to belong to an older, more confident world. To young Niel Herbert, she is the living emblem of refinement: the wife of the aging Captain Forrester, a railroad man and pioneer whose house stands for generosity, civilisation, and the heroic promise of the American West. But as fortunes decline, loyalties shift, and a harsher commercial age overtakes the old frontier order, Marian's charm becomes both her power and her vulnerability.
First published in 1923, A Lost Lady is one of Willa Cather's most concentrated and elegant novels, a portrait of personal disillusionment set against the fading of the pioneer ideal. Through Marian Forrester, Cather created one of her most memorable figures: admired, judged, misunderstood, and never wholly possessed by the moral certainties of those around her. The result is a brief but resonant American classic about memory, class, gender, desire, and the painful transition from romantic frontier mythology to modern materialism. Britannica identifies the novel as a 1923 work depicting the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the aridity of small-town life, while the University of Nebraska Press describes it as a classic Great Plains novel contrasting early Nebraska history with the materialistic world that replaced the frontier.
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