Death Comes For The Archbishop

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1649741847
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Comes for the Archbishop written by Willa Cather and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and lonelness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her tour de force.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Comes for the Archbishop written by Willa Cather and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-01-01T20:45:19Z with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 1850s, this short novel is about the struggles and triumphs of a bishop, Jean Marie Latour, and his loyal friend and vicar, Father Joseph Vaillant. They have been sent to reawaken and spread the Roman Catholic faith in an area where it has grown weak: New Mexico, recently annexed by the United States. Desolate and remote, the territory is home to many diverse groups: Mexicans, including those on ranches established for hundreds of years; Indians, who have been there much longer and who are divided by language and customs into thirty nations; and newcomers—hunters, fur trappers, and those seeking gold. This book is as much their story as it is the story of the priests and the vast changes the land itself underwent in those years. Death Comes for the Archbishop was a departure for Willa Cather, who had already published eight novels before publishing this one in 1927. The novel doesn’t try to follow a single unified story the way many historical novels do; instead, its nine chapters are episodic, filled with stories, legends, histories, and descriptions of the Southwest, which Cather had been visiting for many years before she started writing it. Many of its main characters, including the bishop and his vicar, are thinly disguised versions of real-life historical figures, while other famous New Mexicans of the day, including the frontiersman Kit Carson and the “powerful old priest,” Antonio José Martínez, appear under their actual names. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Rock written by Willa Cather and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shadows on the Rock" is a historical novel written by the American author Willa Cather. The book was published in 1931 and is set in the 17th century in colonial New France, specifically in Quebec City. The novel focuses on the lives of the early French settlers and the challenges they faced while establishing a life in the rugged wilderness of North America. The central character is Cécile Auclair, a young girl who, with her father, makes the difficult journey from France to Quebec to join her mother. The novel provides a vivid portrayal of daily life, relationships, and the interactions between the French settlers and the indigenous people of the region. "Shadows on the Rock" is known for its rich historical detail and evocative descriptions of the landscape and characters. Willa Cather's storytelling captures the enduring spirit and resilience of the early settlers in North America. The novel is celebrated for its historical accuracy and its exploration of the human experience in a challenging and often harsh environment.

Author : Paul Horgan
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573590
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamy of Santa Fe written by Paul Horgan and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1976). The extraordinary biography of a pioneer hero of the frontier Southwest from the author of Great River. Originally published in 1975, this Pulitzer Prize for History–winning biography chronicles the life of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814–1888), New Mexico’s first resident bishop and the most influential, reform-minded Catholic official in the region during the late 1800s. Lamy’s accomplishments, including the endowing of hospitals, orphanages, and English-language schools and colleges, formed the foundation of modern-day Santa Fe and often brought him into conflict with corrupt local priests. His life story, also the subject of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, describes a pivotal period in the American Southwest, as Spanish and Mexican rule gave way to much greater influence from the United States and Europe. Historian and consummate stylist Paul Horgan has given us a chronicle filled with hardy, often extraordinary adventure, and sustained by Lamy’s magnificent strength of character. “Lamy of Santa Fe stands as a beacon in American biography.” —James M. Day, author of Paul Horgan “Lamy of Santa Fe is a classic work. Not only is the research exemplary but so is the narrative artistry, the work of history as art.” —Robert Gish, author of Nueva Granada: Paul Horgan and the Modern Southwest “Historians, and general readers as well, seeking vivid portrayal of the Southwest’s political, social and cultural traditions will find [this book] rewarding . . . the historical and literary heritage of Americans in general will be the richer for Mr. Horgan’s painstaking effort.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831477
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willa Cather On Writing written by Willa Cather and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears inWilla Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all—no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself—a game of make-believe, of re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it."

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Comes for the Archbishop written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two French missionaries make their way to the harsh, unexplored, mountainous region of New Mexico in the hope of revivifying there the religion that had been brought by Spanish priests and then left to decay in the hands of an insubordinate and materialistic clergy.

Author : Melissa J. Homestead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019065287X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Only Wonderful Things written by Melissa J. Homestead and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on newly uncovered archives, The Only Wonderful Things offers a groundbreaking look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative process by arguing that the writer's life partner, magazine editor Edith Lewis, had a crucial impact on Cather's literary work.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781798840337
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Comes for the Archbishop: Large Print written by Willa Cather and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something epic-and almost mythic-about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, although the story it tells is that of a single human life, lived simply in the silence of the desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows-gently, although he must contend with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. One of these events Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book December Night written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803263260
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willa Cather in Person written by Willa Cather and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cather, the Nebraska-born novelist, describes her childhood, her career as a writer, and the influences on her work