A Wagner Matinee Overview
“A Wagner Matinee” is a short story by Willa Cather, first published in 1904. The story is narrated by Clark, a man who resides in Boston, Massachusetts. He is visited by his Aunt Georgiana, a woman who married and moved to rural Nebraska 30 year prior. Clark decides to take Georgiana to an orchestra concert, as she loves music but has limited access to it in rural Nebraska. The story explores themes of rural life, personal fulfillment, and the nature of change.
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Willa Cather Biographies (7)
647 words, approx. 3 pages
The American author Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) is distinguished for her strong and sensitive evocations of prairie life in the twilight years of the midwestern frontier. Her poetic sensibility wa...
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9,750 words, approx. 33 pages
Willa Cather is a splendid example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character. The corner of earth that she is ...
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2,268 words, approx. 8 pages
"I do not take myself seriously as a poet," said Willa Cather in a 1925 interview. Having by then published many short stories and six novels (of an eventual twelve) and having won a Pulitzer Prize fo...
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4,008 words, approx. 14 pages
The literary reputation of Willa Cather has steadily risen since her first volume of short stories appeared in 1905, but her present stature as an important American writer rests largely on her twel...
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7,822 words, approx. 27 pages
During the 1973 Willa Cather centennial seminar in Lincoln, Nebraska, Leon Edel--the Henry James biographer who collaborated with E. K. Brown on the first important biographical study of Cather--put h...
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10,480 words, approx. 35 pages
Biography EssayWilla Cather is an outstanding example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character. The corner of ...
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4,804 words, approx. 17 pages
"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," Willa Cather observed in her second novel, O Pioneers!, but the same theme resonates throughout all of her work. Passionately in...
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Willa Sibert Cather
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