ALEXANDER'S BRIDGE BY WILLA SIBERT CATHER Houghton Mifflin Boston and New York The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, , BY WILLA SIBERT CATHER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published April ALEXANDER'S BRIDGE. ALEXANDER'S BRIDGE CHAPTER I LATE one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street. Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather's first novel, is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections. Published in , just a year before O Pioneers! made Cather's name, it features high society on an international stage rather than the immigrant prairie characters she later became known for. The successful and glamorous life of Bartley Alexander, a world-renowned engineer and bridge List price: $ “Alexander’s Bridge”, published in is the first novel by Willa Cather, though it should probably be considered a novella. It is a fairly quick read, but unfortunately it lacks depth and is overly simplistic. The title character is Bartley Alexander an engineer of bridges/5.
Alexander's Bridge. Willa Sibert Cather ( - ) Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in ) as a mid-life crisis. Although married to his wife Winifred, Bartley resumes his acquaintance with a former lover, Hilda Burgoyne, in London. Alexander's Bridge. Price: $ Quantity. University of Nebraska Press. Hardback. Historical essay and explanatory notes by Tom Quirk - Textual essay and editing by Frederick M. Link. This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition provides an illuminating new framework for Cather's debut novel. The novel is edited according to standards set by the. Free Online Library: Cather, Willa - Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather Chapter VII - best known authors and titles are available on the Free Online Library. Printer Friendly. 27,, articles and books. Periodicals Literature. Keyword Title Author Topic.
Heavily indebted to the Gilded Age novelists, "Alexander's Bridge" reads like a typical first novel from a writer who shows a lot of promise. Later in life, Cather wrote an essay entitled "My First Novels (There Were Two)," as close to an apology for a first novel as most writers ever make. In the light of Willa Cather's later novels, Alexander's Bridge has long been regarded as uncharacteristic. In her introduction, however, Bernice Slote points out the themes, techniques, and details of Alexander's Bridge that tie the book to Cather's earlier and later work: Cather in fact was deeply engaged with her characteristic style and subject matter here. “Alexander’s Bridge”, published in is the first novel by Willa Cather, though it should probably be considered a novella. It is a fairly quick read, but unfortunately it lacks depth and is overly simplistic. The title character is Bartley Alexander an engineer of bridges.
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