A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . .
Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel Herbert, her unwavering confidant. Yet, her irresistible charm and dazzling wit conceal a dangerous vulnerability – and her greatest secret. A significant inspiration for The Great Gatsby, this exquisite novella is a poignant elegy for a bygone era, fading into history.
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The Fire Next Time
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The Driver's Seat
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Chess
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The House of Hunger
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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The Burial of the Rats
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The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian
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The Daemon Lover
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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Where Everything is Music
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Can Socialists be Happy?
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The Blazing World
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A Dog's Heart
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A Dill Pickle
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Transformation
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A Hunger-Artist
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Why I am a Stoic
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Lamb to the Slaughter
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A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
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The New Dress
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Coal
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Secretary
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Thousand Cranes
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
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Night Flight
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After Midnight
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A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
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Horsie
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Paris France
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The Rich Boy
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For Art and for Life
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Whatever is Rational is Tolerable
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The Umbrella
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To Read and Dream
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Some Japanese Ghosts
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The Story of an Hour
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Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
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Lady L.
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The Prose Edda
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Requiem
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Tristessa
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Family Happiness
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Lois the Witch
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Unpacking My Library
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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No Coward Soul Is Mine
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Stan the Killer
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Closely Watched Trains
Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and moved to Nebraska, with its wide open plains and immigrant farming communities, at the age of nine. This landscape would deeply affect her later writing. She attended university and became a journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh, and then a magazine editor in New York. Her first major novel, O Pioneers!, appeared in 1913 and was followed by two more in her prairie trilogy, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia, as well as her masterpiece Death Comes for the Archbishop. She lived with the editor Edith Lewis for thirty-nine years until her death in 1947.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241752050 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241752051 |
| Title | A Lost Lady |
| Author | Willa Cather |
| Series | Penguin Archive |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |