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Youth and the Bright Medusa. Willa Cather. Bibliotech Press, Aug 11, 2020 - Fiction - 146 pages. Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873- April 24, 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark.
This book has 67,603 words, 102 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1920. Production notes: This ebook of Youth and the Bright Medusa was published by Global Grey on the 19th November 2018, and updated on the 25th February 2023. The artwork used for the cover is 'Young Woman In Kimono' - by Alfred Henry Maurer.
In fact, many of the stories in Youth and the Bright Medusa present a far from pastoral view of frontier life. For example, in ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’, the coffin housing the body of famous sculptor Harvey Merrick is returned to his home town in Kansas but the townspeople who gather to mark his passing are depicted as rather small-minded.
Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Sibert Cather Don Hedger had lived for four years on the top floor of an old house on the south side of Washington Square, and nobody had ever disturbed him. He occupied one big room with no outside exposure except on the north, where he had built in a many-paned studio window that looked upon a court and upon the roofs and walls of other buildings.
In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright medusa of art in a hostile, materialistic world. These include some of her best tales: ?Coming, Aphrodite!? focuses on a dedicated painter and his affair with a singer in pursuit of celebrity; ?Paul?s Case? and ?A Wagner ...
Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll GardenWilla Sibert CATHER (1873 - 1947)Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor's Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A Wagner Matinee; Paul's Case) are re-worked from an earlier collection, The Troll Garden, published in 1905. This Librivox recording contains in addition the three stories ...
Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) is a collection of eight short stories by the prolific Willa Cather. Four of the pieces contained in this collection were previously published in her first book of short fiction, The Troll Garden (1905). However, it makes sense that Cather would place these short stories next to each other. They all center around art, the lives of artists and the effects of a ...
