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Originally published in 1923, "A Lost Lady" is Willa Cather’s elegiac portrait of the spirit of an earlier age. In her depiction of Marian Forrester, the much-admired figurehead of culture and society in the town of Sweet Water, Cather evokes a quality of life that began, for her, to vanish sometime around the beginning of the twentieth century. To Cather, much of what was wrong with twentieth century life was the absence of those qualities that Mrs. Forrester embodies: charm, warmth, and a certain graciousness of manner that has no place in the harsher climate of an industrialised society.
Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for "life on any terms," and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her. This, Willa Cather's most perfect novel, is not only a portrait of a troubling beauty, but also a haunting evocation of a noble age slipping irrevocably into the past.
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance, Children's Literature
Length3 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 1, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART ONE
11PART TWO
2One
12One
3Two
13Two
4Three
14Three
5Four
15Four
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6Five
16Five
7Six
17Six
8Seven
18Seven
9Eight
19Eight
10Nine
20Nine
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