A Lost Lady - Couverture souple

Willa Cather

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1603864954 ISBN 13 : 9781603864954

Editeur : Merchant Books, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Thirty or forty years ago, in one of those grey towns along the Burlington railroad, which are so much greyer today than they were then, there was a house well known from Omaha to Den- ver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere. Well known, that is to say, to the railroad aristocracy of that time; men who had to do with the railroad itself, or with one of the "land companies" which were its by-products. In those days it was enough to say of a man that he was "connected with the Burlington." There were the directors, the general managers, vice-presidents, superintendents, whose names we all knew; and their younger brothers or nephews were auditors, freight agents, departmental assistants. Everyone "connected" with the Road, even the large cattle- and grain-shippers, had annual passes; they and their families rode about over the line a great deal. There were then two distinct social strata in the prairie States; the homesteaders and hand-workers who were there to make a living, and the bankers and gentlemen ranchers who came from the Atlantic seaboard to invest money and to "devel- op our great West," as they used to tell us.

Biographie de l'auteur

Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is an eminent author from the United States. She is perhaps best known for her depictions of U.S. life in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Merchant Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1603864954
• ISBN 13: 9781603864954
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108