![]() ![]() Her eyes drank in the breadth of it, until her tears blinded her. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious. In one of the pivotal passages of the book, Cather writes of her:įor the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. ![]() When her brothers wanted to sell the farm during the drought, she went to see the river land they wanted to move to, and returned to propose that they mortgage the farm to add to the lands, her faith being so strong. When he died, she took over its management. As she helped her dying father, it became clear that she and not her two older brothers, truly understood how to make the farm succeed that he had labored so hard to establish in the hills of Nebraska. ![]() This work, the first volume in the Great Plains Trilogy centers around Alexandra Bergstrom, a strong, red-haired woman. ![]() I’ve only recently discovered Willa Cather, and realized that I have missed reading one of America’s great writers. Summary: The first of the Great Plains Trilogy, the story of Alexandra Bergson’s love of the Nebraska hills, the costly choices she made, and the ill-fated love of her brother Emil. New York: Penguin Classics, 1994 (Originally published in 1913). ![]()
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