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The Old Beauty and Others is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1948 after her death. Contents. This collection contains the following stories: The Old Beauty; The Best Years; Before Breakfast; References
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20 feb 2019 · The old beauty, and others. by. Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Publication date. 1948. Publisher. New York : A. A. Knopf. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; trent_university; internetarchivebooks.
The old beauty and others. by. Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Publication date. 1948. Topics. Manners and customs -- Fiction, CHR 1948, PRO Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy), PRO Gray, Grace (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy), Manners and customs, Romance Norte Americano. Publisher. New York : Alfred A. Knopf.
171 ratings36 reviews. A ruined beauty whose dignity has suffered a lifetime of loss and disenchantment. A Czech immigrant who finds a paradoxical contentment on the harsh expanse of the Nebraska prairie. A solitary young painter spying raptly and guiltily on his exquisite neighbor.
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The Old Beauty and Others Alfred A. Knopf, 1948 "In a low cabin on a high red cliff overhanging the sea, everything that was shut up in him, under lock and bolt and pressure, simply broke jail, spread out into the spaciousness of the night, undraped, unashamed."
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Here too is her redirection to Henry James, in the objective exploration of characters in a social milieu- the title story of an English beauty who outlived her era; her absorption in her personal background in the setting of a Nebraska schoolteacher, who lost her life in the great blizzard; and an embodiment of a mood in the third- a ...
