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The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction,brings together allthestories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumescompiled after her death.

These nineteen storiesresonate withallthe great themes that Cather staked out like tracts of fertile land: the plight of people hungry for beauty in a country that has no room for it; the mysterious arc of human lives; and the waysthe American frontier transformed the strangers who came to it, turning them imperceptibly into Americans. In these fictions, Cather displays her vast moral vision, her unerring sense of place, and her ability to find the one detail or episode that makes a closed life open wide in a single exhilarating moment.