The Professor's House
by:
Willa Cather (author)
Tells the story of a scholarly professor in a Midwestern university passing through the critical, uneasy period between middle age and old age.
Tells the story of a scholarly professor in a Midwestern university passing through the critical, uneasy period between middle age and old age.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394719139 (0394719131)
Publish date: October 31st 1990
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 283
Edition language: English
Well, this was very pleasant and all, but...have you ever heard of a bridge version of a book? Don't feel bad if you haven't; I just made it up. What it is is you know how there are abridged versions of books, where they include the important and exciting parts and chop out some of the meandering an...
Another excellent book by Cather. I don't know how I missed out on reading her when I was younger. Her stuff is calm and, perhaps introspective, but she understands people amazingly well. It seems that some of the problems in academia (superficial money grubbing and dumbing down of courses) and Wash...
This book hovers between the three and four star mark for me. I enjoyed My Antonia much more.I enjoyed it, and, yet, at the end, when the Professor felt he'd rediscovered some lost younger self, I didn't believe it for a minute. He had changed, yes, but nothing that he was now feeling sounded like a...
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