- Fiction, African American families, Slavery, History
The story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white Virginian woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. Sapphira and the slave girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940.
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- Author
- Willa Cather
- First published
- November 14, 2000
- Pages
- 174
- Publisher
- Lector House, Thorndike Press, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 86
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781719470070
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“Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife-beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.”
Willa Siebert Cather was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather
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