Publisher's Synopsis
Willa Cather, one of the great American novelists of the 20th century, also wrote some of America's best short fiction. In these tales of pioneers and farmers, artists and youthful lovers, immigrants and their striving children, she creates both a new, never-surpassed portrait of the land and people of the American West and a lively and contemporary picture of life in eastern cities. This volume also contains Cather's novellas Alexander's Bridge (1912) and My Mortal Enemy (1926), her critical essays from Not Under Forty (1936), reviews, and Cather's only book of poetry, April Twilights and Other Poems (1933).
