Author: Willa CatherPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781793226075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
My Mortal Enemy is the eighth novel American author Willa Cather. It was first published in 1926. Wikipedia
My Mortal Enemy (Annotated)
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781793226075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
My Mortal Enemy is the eighth novel American author Willa Cather. It was first published in 1926. Wikipedia
My Mortal Enemy
Author: Willa Willa CatherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
The story revolves around Myra and her husband Oswald, who return to their home in Illinois to visit their relatives. Myra was an outgoing ambitious woman, who didn't obey her uncle and eloped with her boyfriend, and then ran away with him to New York City. In eloping, Myra gave up all claims to her inheritance from the wealthy uncle who had brough her up. But Oswald was a promising man and soon he got a good job and good money for it. They were happy - Myra got everything she wanted, she made friends with different people, and everybody liked her. Successful husband and fashionable wife - a perfect marriage, from the first sight, but it was not. Myra was too jealous and Oswald loved her too much to reproach her, he never thought about himself, he did everything to make Myra happy, and she didn't appreciate it. And when Oswald lost his job they had to move to the poor accommodation, Myra felt ill and could not walk. She blamed her husband in all their problems and wished to stay with her uncle and not having married him. But Oswald didn't accuse her - she was ill and exhausted that is why she thought so.
My Mortal Enemy
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486850862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
This unforgettable novella takes readers on a poignant journey through a failing marriage and offers a tragic depiction of the marriage paradox: how to reconcile youth’s romantic exuberance with growing disillusionment, bitterness, and regret.
My Mortal Enemy Illustrated
Author: Willa CatherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
"Sometimes, when I have watched the bright beginning of a love story, when I have seen a common feeling exalted into beauty by imagination, generosity, and the flaming courage of youth, I have heard again that strange complaint breathed by a dying woman into the stillness of night, like a confession of the soul: 'Why must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy.'"Willa Cather's protagonist in My Mortal Enemy is Myra Henshawe, who as a young woman gave up a fortune to marry for love-a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love.In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherworldly fulfillment. My Mortal Enemy is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.
My Mortal Enemy
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Myra Henshawe's misadventures as her own worst enemy due to greed.
Cather Studies
Author: Susan J. RosowskiPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803264151
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Volume 3 of Cather Studies demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather?s work for the informed reader or the specialized student. In fourteen essays, critics and scholars examine Cather?s Catholic Progressivism, her literary relations with William Faulkner, and her place in the multicultural canon of American literature.
MY MORTAL ENEMY;"I SHALL NOT DIE OF A COLD. I SHALL DIE OF HAVING LIVED."
Author: WILLA SIBERT CATHER.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787375918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My Mortal Enemy
Author: Willa Sibert CatherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Willa Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947)Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.
My Mortal Enemy;With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken
Author: Willa CatherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781528720267
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Willa Cather's darkest and most dramatic work, My Mortal Enemy is an agonisingly honest examination of marriage, love, and the evolution of a single person's life. This 1926 novella depicts a life set for fortune that ultimately results in spite and bitterness. Myra Henshawe, an Irish Catholic, abandoned her uncle and her fortuitous inheritance, instead eloping with her true love, an Ulster Protestant. But is love alone enough to sustain a marriage? As Myra ages and her husband's economic position worsens, she grows resentful and is filled with regret. The narrator, Nellie Birdseye, is a young woman who has met Myra three times. She has also been filled with many stories and snippets of gossip about the infamous woman from her Aunt Lydia, who helped Myra elope. Towards the end of Myra's life, it is Nellie who comforts her, and Willa Cather poses a revelatory question to her readers about the true enemy in one's life. Featuring an introductory essay by H. L. Mencken, My Mortal Enemy is a short classic that would make a great addition to the bookshelves of all Cather readers.
Author: Willa Cather