![]() To my 2009-biased reading, it sounds preachy. Which is all good, until Cather has one righteous character explain exactly how to perceive the nasty townspeople. It’s nominally the stranger’s outsider perspective that allows us to the see the bitter, unpleasant place the sculptor came from. Cather’s has a classic setup: A stranger comes to town, in this case, with the coffin. The short story has evolved somewhat since 1905. Cather’s story will be in their April collection ‘The Bohemian Girl: Stories.’ Originally published in 1905, the story can also be found elsewhere on the Internet, but the Fifty-Two Stories version is laid out well (and you can digg it). So far, they’ve posted pieces by Mary Gaitskill, Louise Erdrich, Tom Piazza and Tony O’Neill, all contemporary authors with books from the publisher. The story is up now at Harper Perennial’s site Fifty-Two Stories, which, as you might guess, will be posting a story a week all year long. a Bohemian girl who endures her own struggles as she enters. Willa Cathers novels brought the life of American settlers on the Great Plains to the forefront of the nations consciousness during a time when the lands west of the Mississippi were undergoing rapid transformation. ![]() In Willa Cather’s ‘ The Sculptor’s Funeral,’ a train pulls up to a snowy Kansas town, carrying a coffin. Travel to the Old West with Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. ![]()
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