by Willa Cather · Virago · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780860681267
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«A Lost Lady» is the classic novel by Willa Cather, published by Virago in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Considered the Madame Bovary of the American frontier, the novel is set in Sweet Water: Marian Forrester, wife of an elderly railroad pioneer, captivates with her vitality her husband, her neighbours, and young Neil Herbert. Her craving to live at any price ends up betraying them as the old West fades away.
The novel was originally published in 1923; this edition dates from 2001 and belongs to the Virago Modern Classics collection (No. 130).
For readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century American classics, interested in the myth of the old West.
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
