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The Professor's House
Willa Cather
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Overview
A study in emotional dislocation and renewal—Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.Tells the story of a scholarly professor in a Midwestern university passing through the critical, uneasy period between middle age and old age.
Synopsis
A study in emotional dislocation and renewal—Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.
Editorials
Great Plains Quarterly -
“The Professor’s House (1925) is arguably Willa Cather’s most important novel of the 1920s. Thematically, the book is exceptionally far ranging. . . . [It] offers a portrait of conspicuous consumption occasionally reminiscent of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. . . . An achievement worthy of the masterpiece at its center, the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of The Professor’s House is a major addition to Cather studies.”—Steven Trout, Great Plains QuarterlyThe Virginia Quarterly Review
"Historians as well as Cather scholars will find this new work useful and informative."—The Virginia Quarterly ReviewBook Details
Published
October 1, 1990
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages
272
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780679731801