Kennebec Large Print Perennial Favorites Collection
2 total works
Alexandra Bergson is the eldest child of a Swedish immigrant family newly arrived in the harsh untamed landscape of the American West. An original, determined child, she is driven by two forces: her fierce protective love for her younger brother, and a deep love of the beautiful country she has come to regard as her own. When her father dies, it is she who becomes the head of the family and struggles to soften the wild overgrown soil that surrounds her, nurturing it until, finally, it rewards her with a richness beyond measure..
At the age of nine, Willa Cather's family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska, and the prairie life that would become the backdrop of many of her finest works. As a university student there, she discovered a talent and affinity for writing which led to careers as a newspaper correspondent, biographer, essayist, journalist, teacher, drama critic, short story writer and novelist. Included here are the stories from Cather's The Troll Garden and Youth and the Bright Medusa plus many more, as well as Alexander’s Bridge, her first novel.