- Fiction, Opera, Women singers, Children of clergy
Determined to leave behind the dull values of her small hometown, an opera singer devotes increasing amounts of energy to developing her art.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Willa Cather
- First published
- 1915
- Pages
- 418
- Publisher
- Bibliotech Press, Thorndike Press, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 409
- Language
- bul, aze, Dutch, ice
- ISBN
- 9781595473646
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“DR. HOWARD ARCHIE had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.”
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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