Alexander's Bridge

Alexander's Bridge

by Willa Cather
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 18/12/2012

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Construction engineer and world-renowned bridge builder Bartley Alexander has everything in mid-life: wealth, good looks, and fame. Yet he finds himself restless and discontented with life — until he meets a former love from his student days and resumes his relationship with her.

Living a double life, Alexander is torn between Winifred, his American wife — a cold woman with clearly defined standards — and Hilda Burgoyne, his alluring mistress in London who helps him recapture his youth and sense of freedom. Alexander's affair, which eventually gnaws away at his sense of propriety and honor, proves disastrous.

Willa Cather's first novel — a fascinating study of a man's growing awareness of the breach in his integrity—is essential reading for fans of this great American novelist.

" … exceptionally well-conceived and well written." — Outlook

" … told with a good deal of charm and skill." — New York Times Book Review

" … a story of brilliant and unusual power." — McClure's

ISBN:
9780486158662
9780486158662
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
18-12-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Dover Publications
Willa Cather

Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and moved to Nebraska, with its wide open plains and immigrant farming communities, at the age of nine.

This landscape would deeply affect her later writing. She attended university and became a journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh, and then a magazine editor in New York.

Her first major novel, O Pioneers!, appeared in 1913, and was followed by two more in her prairie trilogy: The Song of the Lark and My Antonia. She lived with the editor Edith Lewis for thirty-nine years until her death in 1947.

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