false 2370141 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 48203 13 342924 1925 The Professor's House (Virago Modern Classics) total:1022|5:238|4:387|3:312|2:75|1:10| 1022 3834 1475 101 881203 3.74 28767 2956 28465307 1260474 48203 1844083764 9781844083763 77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201m/48203.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201s/48203.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48203.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 855 1925 5 1 false Sat Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 27 18:55:52 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 18:32:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 24058061 1224910 48203 1844083764 9781844083763 77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201m/48203.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201s/48203.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48203.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 5 2 false Wed Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 08:46:12 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 17:01:32 -0700 2008
I read this for a grad class on Cather and it blew me away. Strangely intense little book. At first, it doesn't seem to be about much, but it's worth a close reading.

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When I read My Mortal Enemy this past fall, I was surprised to see how much I enjoyed Cather workin...more...]]> 72161078 1124585 766900 0679731806 9780679731801 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223636050m/766900.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223636050s/766900.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766900.The_Professor_s_House 3.79 146 1925 3 2 false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 16:09:27 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 14:51:37 -0700 2009 The Professor's House. The plot itself is very straightforward and easy to describe. The characters are vivid and well-defined which adds to the realism of the novel. But it seems to me that the meat of this novel is in the themes and nuances.

...more...]]> 41608372 1710557 48203 1844083764 9781844083763 77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201m/48203.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201s/48203.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48203.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 02 10:06:54 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 10:08:22 -0800 2009 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, another post war story-- but what a difference! This was much bleaker compared to Jim. I think it hit me especially hard as I am watching my 86 year old mother adapt to a world that holds fewer and fewer people she knew and loved in her youth. Ther...more...]]> 49189417 923580 48203 1844083764 9781844083763 77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201m/48203.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201s/48203.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48203.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 4 0 false Fri Mar 13 15:38:58 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 15:39:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 38739594 1338878 766900 0679731806 9780679731801 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223636050m/766900.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223636050s/766900.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766900.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 5 0 false Wed Nov 26 22:31:25 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 22:35:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 38925044 713536 48203 1844083764 9781844083763 77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201m/48203.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201s/48203.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48203.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 4 0 false Sun Nov 30 01:13:44 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 01:17:22 -0800 2008 also, I have never heard the southwest described so perfectly. Without spoiling too much of the plot, I will s...more...]]> 1411838 47008 766900 0679731806 9780679731801 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223636050m/766900.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223636050s/766900.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766900.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 3 1 false Thu May 24 07:29:04 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:00:53 -0800 2009 59741523 1995871 352699 0803214286 9780803214286 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174005724m/352699.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174005724s/352699.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352699.The_Professor_s_House 3.50 2 The Professor's House incorporates into its textual analysis findings from a recently discovered and significantly reworked draft of the novel. Willa Cather's perennial claims that there were no extant drafts make this discovery especially important to Cather scholars.</div><div> </div><div>Written in 1925, when she was fifty-two years old, The Professor's House was Cather's seventh novel. Cather explained that in this novel she had attempted two structural experiments. The first experiment she took from the practice of early French and Spanish novelists of inserting a "nouvelle into the roman," hence the first-person "Tom Outland's Story" wedged between the other two parts of the novel. Second, she compared the novel's structure to a sonata form in music, with the center section in significant contrast to the surrounding sections</div><div> </div><div>Behind the understated prose relating the story of Professor Godfrey St. Peter, who, despite his success, experiences at midcareer a profound disappointment with life, is the fierce account of how he decides to continue living despite those disappointments. Tom Outland's thrilling tale of a long-lost civilization is both an ironic contrast to the professor's staid outer life and a mirror of the imaginative interior life he experiences in his attic study.</div>]]> 1925 4 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jun 15 09:42:36 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 11:19:19 -0700 2009
Through Ms. Cather’s narrative, we are introduced to those places our profess...more...]]> 34392500 1416647 48203 1844083764 9781844083763 77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201m/48203.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201s/48203.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48203.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 0 0 false Thu Oct 02 16:00:39 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 11:01:04 -0800 2008 The Professor's House - Willa Cather (1925)
I rather fancy this as some sort of ghost story! It made my hair stand on end when the spirit first appears. What ever happens to those wondrous old times? Is there no way why we can't keep them?
I've come in my life to not want to take benefit f...more...]]> 27876930 130981 48203 1844083764 9781844083763 77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201m/48203.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201s/48203.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48203.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 4 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 12:54:17 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 17:02:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 61974752 127467 48203 1844083764 9781844083763 77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201m/48203.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201s/48203.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48203.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 2 0 false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 20:11:43 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 10:59:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 74436048 1621316 48203 1844083764 9781844083763 77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201m/48203.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201s/48203.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48203.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 3 0 false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 15:40:30 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 15:48:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 36830475 1411518 48203 1844083764 9781844083763 77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201m/48203.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351201s/48203.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48203.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 5 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 11:03:43 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 19:49:46 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 54434459 504424 766900 0679731806 9780679731801 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223636050m/766900.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223636050s/766900.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766900.The_Professor_s_House 3.75 1022 1925 5 0 false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 19:46:25 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 14:45:12 -0700 2009 getting it - what's Willa Cather going on about? I love her writing, and here she treats us to descriptions of New Mexico that touch the soul, but it just seemed like "a bunch of stuff that happened."

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