The Professor's House
by:
Willa Cather (author)
Professor Godfrey St. Peter doesn't like the new direction that his life has taken. When he and his wife move into their new house, he decides to keep his study at the old house so that he will not have to let go of the way life used to be. After a gas leak, causing a near death experience, that...
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Professor Godfrey St. Peter doesn't like the new direction that his life has taken. When he and his wife move into their new house, he decides to keep his study at the old house so that he will not have to let go of the way life used to be. After a gas leak, causing a near death experience, that he almost welcomed, he realizes that he needs to find a new way to cope.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781604595123 (1604595124)
Publish date: October 24th 2008
Publisher: Smk Books
Pages no: 140
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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