{"product_id":"collected-stories-of-willa-cather-9780679736486","title":"Collected Stories of Willa Cather","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, \u003ci\u003e Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese nineteen stories resonate with all the 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 ways the 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWILLA CATHER\u003c\/b\u003e, author of twelve novels, including \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!, My Ántonia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/i\u003e, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50642310856978,"sku":"9780679736486","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8af257d8-29b0-49ef-83a8-3478a30c9dcb.jpg?v=1733063401","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/collected-stories-of-willa-cather-9780679736486","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}