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Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

Start date: March 1, 2023

Finish date: March 31, 2023

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

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Apr 14, 2023 RJ - Slayer of Trolls rated it really liked it · review of another edition

“Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was far away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!”

One of Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather’s most notable works, outside of the Great Plains Trilogy, is this historical fiction based on the mid-19th Century work of two real-life Catholic priests originally from France as they served in the New Mexico diocese which overlap ...more

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Jan 04, 2023 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: gutenberg, american-fiction, proofreading, e-books, free-literature, read-2023, historical-fiction, fiction-20th-century, mtbr-challenge-2023

Free download available at Project Gutenberg

What a magnificent book!! So far, my favourite one.

I made the proofing of this book for Free Literature and Project Gutenberg will publish it. ...more

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Apr 08, 2025 Mike rated it really liked it

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Father Latour and his assistant, Father Valliant, go to New Mexico in 1851 to spread the Catholic faith. Ovre the next forty years they work. Sometimes together, others apart. And, in the end, death does come for them.

Went through parts when I was on the verge of being bored, but then I would suddenly find myself just wrecked emotionally.

This is a quiet book. Not a ton happens But the quiet hides some real depth.

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