Alexander's Bridge;With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken by Willa Cather

Alexander's Bridge;With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken by Willa Cather

First published in 1912, Alexander's Bridge is American author Willa Cather's first novel. The story centers around Bartley Alexander, a famous engineer and bridge builder who is going through a mid-life crisis. Despite having a wife named Winifred, Bartley rekindles an old flame in London--an affair that Bartley's innate propriety and honour would make him regret. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. Other notable works by this author include: O Pioneers (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My ntonia (1918). She won the Pulitzer Prize for her World War I novel One of Ours (1922). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from Willa Cather - Written For The Borzoi, 1920 by H. L. Mencken.

Willa Sibert Cather (1873 – 1947) was an American author best known for her novels about life on the Great Plains' frontier, such as O Pioneers! One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I, won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Cather was born in Virginia and raised in Nebraska, where she attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She spent eleven years in Pittsburgh, working as a magazine editor and high school English teacher to support herself. She relocated to New York City at the age of 33, where she spent the rest of her life, but she also traveled extensively and spent time at her summer house on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.

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ISBN 13	9781528716123
ISBN 10	1528716124
Title	Alexander's Bridge;With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken
Author	Willa Cather
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Read Books
Year published	2020-06-04
Number of pages	90
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