Coming, Aphrodite! And Other Stories

Coming, Aphrodite! And Other Stories

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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.

Coming, Aphrodite! And Other Stories,Willa Cather,Margaret Anne O'Connor,Cynthia Griffin Wolff,Penguin Classics,0141181567,Cather, Willa, 1873-1947,Classics,Fiction,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Short Stories (single author),Social life and customs,United States,Classic fiction,Fiction / Classics,Modern fiction

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