| Description |
1 online resource (977 pages). |
| Series |
The Willa Cather scholarly edition |
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
Works. 1992.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Willa Cather's third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg. In creating Thea's character, Cather was inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad, although Thea's early life also has much in common with Cather's own. Set from 1885 to 1909, the novel traces Thea's long journey from her fictional hometown of Moonstone, Colorado, to her source of inspiration in the Southwest, and to New York and the Metropolitan Opera House. As she makes her own way in the world from an unlikely background, Thea distills all her e. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; The Song of the Lark; Contents; Part I Friends of Childhood; Part II The Song of the Lark; Part III Stupid Faces; Part IV The Ancient People; Part V Dr. Archie's Venture; Part VI Kronborg; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Historical Apparatus; Historical Essay; Preface to the 1932 Jonathan Cape Edition; Illustrations; Explanatory Notes; Textual Apparatus; Textual Essay; Emendations; Notes on Emendations; Table of Rejected Substantives; Word Division. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Bildungsromans.
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Chicago (Ill.)
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Children of clergy.
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Colorado.
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Musical fiction.
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Opera.
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Swedish Americans.
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Women singers.
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Young women.
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Women singers -- Fiction.
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Children of clergy -- Fiction.
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Swedish Americans -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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Opera -- Fiction.
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
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Colorado -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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Children of clergy. (OCoLC)fst00855328
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Opera. (OCoLC)fst01046145
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Swedish Americans. (OCoLC)fst01140023
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Women singers. (OCoLC)fst01178528
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Young women. (OCoLC)fst01183301
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Colorado. (OCoLC)fst01210251
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Illinois -- Chicago.
(OCoLC)fst01204048
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Musicals.
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Bildungsromans.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Musical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726679
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780803214026 |
| ISBN |
9780803244726 (ebook) |
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