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The Song of the Lark

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784874438

  • Length: 496  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 391g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Song of the Lark

The second novel in Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life.

'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates

Thea Kronberg, gifted with a beautiful voice, defies her humble beginnings in Colorado and finds success far from her small hometown. But her achievements come with painful drawbacks. As the distance between Thea and her roots increases, she must fight to find her inner strength and reach her full potential.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PENELOPE LIVELY

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784874438

  • Length: 496  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 391g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic

    Helen Dunmore

  • The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work

    A. S. Byatt

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About the Author

Willa Cather

Novels by Willa CatherAlexander's Bridge 1912 O Pioneers! 1913 The Song of the Lark 1915 My Ántonia 1918 One of Ours 1922 A Lost Lady 1923 The Professor's House 1925 My Mortal Enemy 1926 Death Comes for the Archbishop 1927 Shadows on the Rock 1931 Lucy Gayheart 1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl 1940 Short Fiction The Troll Garden 1905 Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920 Obscure Destinies 1932 The Old Beauty and Others 1948 Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 1965 Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929 1972 Introducer Biography: Elaine Showalter is the author of the recent ground-breaking study of American women writers, A Jury of Her Peers, and the classic A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing.

Willa Cather

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