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Willa Cather

Willa Cather

Naissance 7 December 1873 · Décès 24 April 1947

Originaire de Gore, Virginia, United States · Nationalité : United States · Écrit de la fiction

Wikipedia

Willa Siebert Cather était une romancière américaine qui a grandi dans le Nebraska. Elle est surtout connue pour ses évocations de la vie des pionniers dans les Grandes Plaines, dans des romans tels que *Les Pionniers* (*O Pioneers!*), *Ma Ántonia* et *Le Chant de l'alouette* (*The Song of the Lark*).

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Citations

  • “We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.”
    O Pioneers!, Part VEn anglais
  • “There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”
    My Antonia, Book IEn anglais
  • “What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?”
    The Song of the Lark, Part IVEn anglais
  • “I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
    O Pioneers!, Part IIEn anglais
  • “Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
    My Antonia, Book VEn anglais

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Les livres de Willa Cather dans l'ordre

Les livres de Willa Cather dans l'ordre de parution, de The Troll Garden (1905) à The Selected Letters Of Willa Cather (2013).

  1. 1The Troll GardenThe Troll Garden1905
    Ce qu'il contient (24)
  2. 2Pont De AlexanderPont De Alexander1912
  3. 3PionniersPionniers1913
  4. 4Chant De L'AlouetteChant De L'Alouette1915
  5. 5Mon AntoniaMon Antonia1918
  6. 6Youth and the Bright MedusaYouth and the Bright Medusa1920
  7. 7L'Un des nôtresL'Un des nôtres1922
  8. 8A Lost LadyA Lost Lady1923
  9. 9La Maison du professeurLa Maison du professeur1925
  10. 10Death Comes for the ArchbishopDeath Comes for the Archbishop1926
  11. 11My Mortal EnemyMy Mortal Enemy1926
  12. 12Des ombres sur le rocherDes ombres sur le rocher1931
  13. 13Destins ObscursDestins Obscurs1932
  14. 14Lucy GayheartLucy Gayheart1935
  15. 15Sapphira and the Slave GirlSapphira and the Slave Girl1940
  16. 16The Selected Letters Of Willa CatherThe Selected Letters Of Willa Cather2013
  17. 17Friend of My SpringtimeFriend of My Springtime
  18. 18Great Short Works of Willa CatherGreat Short Works of Willa Cather
  19. 19Neighbor RosickyNeighbor Rosicky
  20. 20Paul's Case and Other StoriesPaul's Case and Other Stories
  21. 21The Kingdom of ArtThe Kingdom of Art
  22. 22Uncle Valentine and Other StoriesUncle Valentine and Other Stories

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