On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St Peter finds himself in the shabby study of his former home. Surrounded by the comforting, familiar sights of his past, he surveys his life and the people he has loved: his wife Lillian, his daughters and, above all, Tom Outland, his most outstanding student and once, his son-in-law to be. Enigmatic and courageous - and a tragic victim of the Great War - Tom has remained a source of inspiration to the professor. But he has also left behind him a troubling legacy which has brought betrayal and fracture to the women he loves most ...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Willa Cather's work was profoundly influenced by her upbringing in rural Nebraska. During her young adulthood, Cather proved herself intelligent and capable, initially training for a career as a medical doctor, but discovered a love of and talent for writing while attending the University of Nebraska. Following graduation, Cather worked as a journalist for several women's magazines before becoming a high school teacher. A work experience as an editor at McClure's provided Cather with her first chance to publish as the magazine serialised her first novel. Cather died in 1947 at the age of seventy-three.
Title: The Professor's House (Virago Modern Classics)
Author: Willa Cather
ISBN: 9781844083763
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Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Date: 2006-09-07
Number of Pages: 256
Weight: 0.1996 kg
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic -- Helen Dunmore
She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers * Observer *
A triumph -- Hermione Lee
The book holds in majestic and mournful equipoise both the nobility of the civilizing instinct and the certainty of its frustration -- Donald Lyons * The Criterion *