The Song of the Lark

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Courier Corporation, Aug 1, 2004 - Fiction - 313 pages
One of the foremost 20th-century American novelists, Willa Cather is particularly renowned for the memorable women who populate such works as My Antonia and O Pioneers! In The Song of the Lark, she presents the portrait of another such formidable woman, Thea Kronborg, who defies the limitations set on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. This coming-of-age novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, is one of Cather's most popular.

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About the author (2004)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather (1873–1947) spent her formative years in Nebraska, which was at that time frontier territory. Her exposure to the region's dramatic environment and intrinsic hardships — along with its diverse population of European-Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants — shaped and informed much of her fiction.

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