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First published in 1912, "Alexander's Bridge" is American author Willa Cather's first novel. The story centers around Bartley Alexander, a famous engineer and bridge builder who is going through a mid-life crisis. Despite having a wife named Winifred, Bartley rekindles an old flame in London-an affair that Bartley's innate propriety and honour would make him regret. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. Other notable works by this author include: "O Pioneers!" (1913), "The Song of the Lark" (1915), and "My Ántonia" (1918). She won the Pulitzer Prize for her World War I novel "One of Ours"" (1922). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from "Willa Cather - Written For The Borzoi, 1920" by H. L. Mencken.

A powerful novel of the American Midwest by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather, with an afterword by Bridget Bennett.

These seven stories by Willa Cather, edited by Patricia T.O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman for Rushwater Press, arepublished here under the title Tales of Town & Country. Allbut one first appeared in periodicals.';A Death in the Desert' originally appeared in Scribner'sMagazine, January 1903.';The Bohemian Girl' was first published McClure's Magazine,August 1912.';A Gold Slipper' originally appeared in Harper's MonthlyMagazine, January 1917.';On the Divide' was first printed in Overland Monthly,January 1896.';Flavia and Her Artists' originally appeared in a collectionof Cather's stories, The Troll Garden, published inMarch 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co.';The Bookkeeper's Wife' first appeared in The Centuryllustrated Monthly Magazine, May 1916.';Her Boss' was first published in October 1919 in boththe American and the British editions of the magazineSmart Set. The version included here is from the Americanedition.

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