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A Lost Lady

Willa Cather,

A.S. Byatt (Introduction)

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Jun 17, 2021 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Free download available at Project Gutenberg

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

". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Come, my coach!
Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies;
Good night, good night." ...more

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Sep 29, 2024 Mary Ellen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I've been a fan of Willa Cather since reading Death Comes for the Archbishop thirty years ago. (I read My Ántonia in high school, but was not a fan.)

A Lost Lady is gracefully written, the setting and characters well-described; the story sad. Cather is writing of a transition from one era (that she loved) to another (that she was not as fond of), and an elegiac quality pervades the book.

In Marian Forrester, Cather has created a complex, living woman: flawed, virtuous, beautiful, fading. We see he ...more

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