false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170351188m/48200.jpg 48200 18 <div><div>Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for "life on any terms," and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her. This, Willa Cather's most perfect novel, is not only a portrait of a troubling beauty, but also a haunting evocation of a noble age slipping irrevocably into the past.</div></div> 2064261 1923 A Lost Lady total:623|5:103|4:223|3:218|2:70|1:9| 623 2210 845 51 4 2 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 17:27:17 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 13:13:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 12:32:49 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 16:07:40 -0700 2009
This is the sixth of Cather's books that I've read, and I honestly only pi...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 01 10:23:08 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 04 11:04:15 -0800 2008 A Lost Lady - Willa Cather
An interesting shorter read that will surely spur thought and discussion.

I was surprised at what seems Cather's heavy judgment regarding sexual freedom and choice, and the gender double standard presented here. It seems to praise an unhealthy celibate repr...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 15 16:47:33 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 09:40:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 15:57:40 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 16:02:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 18:45:21 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 17:25:12 -0700 2009 My Antonia, however. A Lost Lady is a study of a dynamic between an ambitious, solemn young man adoring from both near an...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 07:43:20 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 07:45:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 02:58:41 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 03:07:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 13 23:33:49 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 09 15:14:36 -0800 2008 A Lost Lady is the story of a woman needing to be saved. At first she seems to be a romantic figure, but as time passes her p...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Sep 27 13:05:22 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 13:07:43 -0700 2009 This is the first Willa Cather I can remember reading, and I was not all that impressed, probably because the character of Marian Forrester just irritated the snot out of me. And IVY PETERS made m...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 15:29:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 15:34:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 17 16:18:08 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 17:02:52 -0800 2007
It's about a young woman, married to a much older man, and her life in a railroad boomtown in the Midwest. It is...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Sep 01 23:20:38 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 23:23:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 23 17:06:07 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 17:06:35 -0700 2008
A Lost Lady is mild, yet rich. It is about a couple, and older man...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 10 21:45:39 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 21:48:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 14:25:57 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 08:37:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Aug 22 16:19:07 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 08:18:43 -0700 2007 Set in the 1880's/90's in Nebraska, this book chronicles the relationship of a young boy/man and the wife of a wealthy local luminary. As the boy turns into a man, his early admiration for the lady turns into cont...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Sun Nov 30 19:15:46 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 19:18:35 -0800 2008 1 4 0 false false Sat Jun 21 20:07:35 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 20:26:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Apr 16 22:02:52 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 08:13:48 -0700 2009 A Lost Lady is both an outstanding portrait of transitional America as well as a character sketch of a pioneering woman in a small prairie town of the central plains: Mrs. Marian Forrester. Her husband is an aging older man, influential and wealthy, who made his fortune in the railroad business. S...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=48200