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A lost lady

Willa Cather ; historical essay by Susan J. Rosowski, with Kari A. Ronning ; explanatory notes by Kari A. Ronning ; textual editing by Charles W. Mignon & Frederick M. Link, with Kari A. Ronning

(The Willa Cather scholarly edition)

University of Nebraska Press, 2003

  • : pbk.

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1st Nebraska paperback printing: 2003

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First published in 1923, A Lost Lady is one of Willa Cather's classic novels about life on the Great Plains. It harks back to Nebraska's early history and contrasts those days with an unsentimental portrait of the materialistic world that supplanted the frontier. In her subtle portrait of Marian Forrester, whose life unfolds in the midst of this disquieting transition, Cather created one of her most memorable and finely drawn characters. This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of A Lost Lady is edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association. The historical essay describes the origin, writing, and reception of the novel as well as motion pictures that were later based on it; and a selection of archival photographs illuminates the connection between the novel and the people and places from Cather's formative years in Nebraska. Explanatory notes identify locations, literary references, persons, events, and specialized terminology. The textual essays describe the production and subsequent revisions of the text.

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