The Professor's House
by:
Willa Cather (author)
When Professor Godfrey and wife move to a new house, he becomes uncomfortable with the road his life is taking. He keeps his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life. Also the marriages of his two daughters have removed them from the home, precipitating a mid-life...
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When Professor Godfrey and wife move to a new house, he becomes uncomfortable with the road his life is taking. He keeps his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life. Also the marriages of his two daughters have removed them from the home, precipitating a mid-life crisis that leaves the Professor feeling as though he has lost the will to live because he feels he has nothing to look forward to anymore. Can he resolve to go on with his life and make the best of things, or is something more sinister in the stars?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781105850073 (1105850072)
Publish date: June 7th 2012
Publisher: Lulu.com
Pages no: 134
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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