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Willa Cather
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
"In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to twelve-year-old Cécile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas créche. As Cather follows...
24) Song of the lark
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1890s Colorado, young Thea escapes the narrow confines of her world to become a world-famous opera singer, defining herself in a man's world.
A young woman escapes from rural Colorado to become a world-famous opera singer in Willa Cather's powerful tale of an artist's self-discovery. Based in part on Cather's own experiences growing up on the frontier, the story tells how Thea Kronborg develops a passion for music and seeks fulfillment beyond...
25) O pioneers!
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, an immigrant's daughter inherits her family's Nebraska farm and her father's fierce love for the land. Fifteen years later she has made the family a fortune through her canny management of the farm, but has never forgotten the young man who left the prairie to seek his fortune.