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Professor's House, the (1925) [Novel]
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Summary (From the publisher):

How do the people we once were persist inside the men and women we become? How do we reconcile our oldest dreams with the demands of our present lives? And what if our reasoned pursuit of happiness ends up betraying needs that are deeper and more sacred? Willa Cather addressed these questions with empathy and startling insight in The Professor's House.

Cather's protagonist is Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life.

Original title: The Professor's House
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics

The following works are contained within this one:
Tom Outland's Story (1925) [Novella]
Author: Willa Cather

Notes:

Dedication: For Jan, because he likes narratives.

The Professor's House (2002)

Edition Details (From the publisher):

The scholarly edition of The Professor's House incorporates into its textual analysis findings from a recently discovered and significantly reworked draft of the novel. Willa Cather's perennial claims that there were no extant drafts make this discovery especially important to Cather scholars.
Historical essay by James Woodress
Explanatory notes by James Woodress with Kari A. Ronning
Textual editing by Frederick M. Link

Language: English

Edited by: Frederick M. Link

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