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The troll garden : and other stories / Willa Cather.

by Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

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Kennebec Large Print, 2010, c1905.

Perennial favorites collection.

9781410433893 (large print : softcover)

Large print ed. (softcover)

699 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

"Gale Cengage Learning".

Flavia and her artists -- The sculptor's funeral -- The garden lodge -- "A death in the desert" -- The marriage of Phaedra -- A Wagner matinée -- Paul's case -- Coming, Aphrodite! -- The diamond mine -- A gold slipper -- Scandal -- Alexander's bridge -- Peter -- On the divide -- Eric Hermannson's soul -- The sentimentality of William Tavener -- The namesake -- The enchanted bluff -- The joy of Nelly Deane -- The Bohemian girl -- Consequences -- The bookkeeper's wife -- Ardessa -- Her boss.

"In the stories that comprise The Troll Garden, her first book, Willa Cather evokes the devastated, romantic dreams that haunt her characters. Artists, inveterate sentimentalists, hungering beauties, and demon-ridden ascetics find themselves torn between the need to confess and keep secret their private aspirations. Involved with the hope that destroys the spirit, their lives reflect both the impoverished materialism and the deadly idealism of the Plains country, of the fashionable East, and of London at the turn of the century."--willacather.org/selected-stories-home

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