Neuausgabe zum Jubiläum am 7.12.2023: 150. Geburtstag der Autorin

Zum 150. Geburtstag der Pulitzer-Preisträgerin am 7.12.2023

Der Roman «Lucy Gayheart» von 1936 ist das liebevolle Porträt einer jungen Frau, die zu neuen Ufern aufbricht: das erste eigene Zimmer, die erste große Liebe und die ewige Frage, warum man nie den Mann will, den man haben könnte.

Jeder im amerikanischen Städtchen Haverford sagt Lucy Gayheart eine glänzende Zukunft voraus: Sie ist jung, hübsch und musisch hochbegabt - eine ausgezeichnete Klavierspielerin. Doch Lucy wünscht...

"The Song of the Lark" is a novel by American author Willa Cather. It was written in 1915 and became the author's third novel to be published. The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers and develops her singing voice. The protagonist, Thea Kronborg, grows up, learning herself, her strengths, and her talent until she reaches success.

Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The narrative is based on two historical figures of the late 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, and the story follows their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergy in New Mexico. The narrative touches many aspects of their lives and has frequent digressions, either in terms of stories related to the pair (including the story of the Our Lady of Guadalupe and the murder of an...

Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in...

A Lost Lady tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester who live in the Western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad. The story is told from the perspective of Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester, for whom he feels very deeply, and also of the West itself from the idealized age of noble pioneers to the age of capitalist exploitation.

When Professor Godfrey St. Peter and wife move to a new house, he becomes uncomfortable with the route his life is taking. He keeps on his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life. The marriages of his two daughters have removed them from the home and added two new sons-in-law, precipitating a mid-life crisis that leaves the Professor feeling as though he has lost the will to live because he has nothing to look forward to. Adding to that, the death of his favourite student Tom Outland in the Great War is a blow that is too heavy to deal with at his age. Will...

"O Pioniere!" ist ein Meisterwerk des amerikanischen Realismus, das die Herausforderungen und Triumphe der schwedischen Siedlerfamilie Bergson in der Prärie Nebraskas am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts nachzeichnet. Mit bildreicher Sprache und einer klaren, unprätentiösen Prosa verwebt Willa Cather das Ringen der Hauptfigur Alexandra Bergson um Bestand und Fortschritt in einer rauen Landschaft mit tiefgründigen Betrachtungen zu Natur, Erbe und individueller Bestimmung. Dieses Werk steht exemplarisch für Cathers Gespür, den Widerstreit zwischen Mensch und Land als bestimmendes Motiv...

In Willa Cathers prägnantem Werk "Meine Antonia" entfaltet sich vor dem Hintergrund der weitläufigen Prärien Nebraskas eine bewegende Geschichte über Freundschaft, Identität und das Streben nach dem amerikanischen Traum. Der Roman, geprägt durch Cathers eindringlichen Stil, kombiniert die Elemente des Realismus mit einer lebhaften Darstellung der Natur, um das gestalterische Potenzial der amerikanischen Landschaft zu ergründen. Diese literarische Exkursion in das Leben der Einwanderergemeinschaft im späten 19. Jahrhundert bietet nicht nur eine intime Erkundung der Hauptfigur Antonia,...