Youth and the Bright Medusa
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Author | Willa Cather |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Short story collection |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1920 |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920.[1] Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden.
Contents
This collection contains the following stories:[2]
- "Coming, Aphrodite!" a.k.a. "Coming, Eden Bower!"
- "The Diamond Mine"
- "A Gold Slipper"
- "Scandal"
- "Paul's Case"
- "A Wagner Matinee"
- "The Sculptor's Funeral"
- "A Death in the Desert"
Publication
The book was the first book Cather published with Alfred A. Knopf.[3] She was unhappy with her publisher Houghton Mifflin and had been interested in Knopf since seeing their edition of Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson.[3] Cather liked the looks of their books and how they supported their authors with well-designed advertisements.[3] Cather was still under contract with Houghton Mifflin for her novels so Knopf offered to put out a selection of her short stories.[3]
References
- ^ "And Death Comes for Willa Cather, Famous Author". Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. 25 April 1947.
- ^ Willa Cather. Youth and the Bright Medusa – via Project Gutenberg.
- ^ a b c d Claridge, Laura (2016). The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire (First ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 61–62. ISBN 9780374114251. OCLC 908176194.
External links
- Youth and the Bright Medusa public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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Willa Cather
- Alexander's Bridge
- O Pioneers!
- The Song of the Lark
- My Ántonia
- One of Ours
- A Lost Lady
- The Professor's House
- My Mortal Enemy
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Shadows on the Rock
- Lucy Gayheart
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl
- Hard Punishments
- "Peter"
- "Lou, the Prophet"
- "The Elopement of Allen Poole"
- "A Tale of the White Pyramid"
- "A Son of the Celestial"
- "The Clemency of the Court"
- "The Fear That Walks by Noonday"
- "On the Divide"
- "A Night at Greenway Court"
- "Tommy, the Unsentimental"
- "The Princess Baladina – Her Adventure"
- "The Count of Crow's Nest"
- "The Burglar's Christmas"
- "The Strategy of the Were-Wolf Dog"
- "A Resurrection"
- "The Prodigies"
- "Nanette: An Aside"
- "The Way of the World"
- "The Westbound Train"
- "Eric Hermannson's Soul"
- "The Dance at Chevalier's"
- "The Sentimentality of William Tavener"
- "The Affair at Grover Station"
- "A Singer's Romance"
- "The Conversion of Sum Loo"
- "Jack-a-Boy"
- "El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional"
- "The Professor's Commencement"
- "The Treasure of Far Island"
- "A Death in the Desert"
- "A Wagner Matinee"
- "The Sculptor's Funeral"
- "Flavia and Her Artists"
- "The Garden Lodge"
- "The Marriage of Phaedra"
- "Paul's Case"
- "The Namesake"
- "The Profile"
- "The Willing Muse"
- "Eleanor's House"
- "On the Gulls' Road"
- "The Enchanted Bluff"
- "The Joy of Nelly Deane"
- "Behind the Singer Tower"
- "The Bohemian Girl"
- "Consequences"
- "The Bookkeeper's Wife"
- "The Diamond Mine"
- "A Gold Slipper"
- "Ardessa"
- "Scandal"
- "Her Boss"
- "Coming, Eden Bower!"
- "Uncle Valentine"
- "Double Birthday"
- "Neighbour Rosicky"
- "Two Friends"
- "The Old Beauty"
- "Before Breakfast"
- "The Best Years"
collections
- The Troll Garden
- Youth and the Bright Medusa
- Obscure Destinies
- The Old Beauty and Others
- Five Stories
- A Lost Lady (1934 film)
- O Pioneers! (1992 film)
- My Antonia (1995 film)
- The Song of the Lark (2001 film)
- O Pioneers! (2009 opera)