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The Song of the Lark Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark By Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather


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This text offers Willa Sibert Cather's lyrical, atmospheric and moving novel, a thinly veiled autobiography of a female artist in America at the turn of the century.

The Song of the Lark Summary

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

The daughter of a Swedish minister, growing up in Colorado, Thea Kronborg's adolescent ability on the piano is encouraged by her eccentric German music teacher, Professor Wuncsch and by the kindly but unhappily married Dr Howard Archie. Set apart from the townspeople by her talents, Thea's friends are far from conventional. At 17 she leaves them and her mother's influence to go to Chicago where she studies with the pianist Andor Harsanyi. Overhearing her singing in a church he is the mentor who discovers the potential of her singing voice and sends her to study with the chill and selfish Madison Bowers, whom she dislikes. Her story moves to Arizona when she and a wealthy young brewer, Fred Ottenburg fall in love. A tension between her relationship with him and the driving artistic impulse that has always ruled her develops and becomes the novel's compelling central theme. Cather's lyrical, atmospheric and moving novel is a thinly veiled autobiography of a female artist in America at the turn of the century. A mature work filled with memorable characters all of whom influence Thea in different ways, The Song of the Lark deserves to be read alongside O Pioneers! and My Antonia and fully justifies Cather's status as one of America's greatest twentieth-century writers.

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GOR002395306
9780192832016
0192832018
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20000504
468
N/A
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