Title | : | A Lost Lady (Unabridged) |
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Author | : | Willa Cather |
Release | : | 2016-10-04 |
Kind | : | audiobook |
Genre | : | Classics |
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1 | A Lost Lady (Unabridged) | Willa Cather |
A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them. To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability. |