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A Lost Lady

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Cather’s elegiac portrait of Marian Forrester, frontier memory, social change, and lost ideals.

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A Lost Lady

A Lost Lady centers on Marian Forrester, whose grace and contradictions become inseparable from a fading vision of the American West. Through Niel Herbert’s changing perception, Cather examines admiration, disillusionment, class, gender, and the decline of a pioneer order.

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Willa Cather died in 1947, and A Lost Lady was first published or composed in 1923; these dates support the public-domain basis for this edition.

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A Lost Lady

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". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Come, my coach!

Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies;

Good night, good night._"

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02A LOST LADY
  3. 03WILLA CATHER
  4. 04MCMLXIII
  5. 05ALFRED A KNOPF
  6. 06PART ONE
  7. 07I
  8. 08II
  9. 09books and made farm loans. Having lost his own property, he invested
  10. 10III
  11. 11IV
  12. 12V
  13. 13particles of snow the ponies kicked up. From behind it she glanced at
  14. 14VI
  15. 15VII
  16. 16books in his library, just as he had claret in his cellar. Among them
  17. 17VIII
  18. 18IX
  19. 19PART TWO
  20. 20I
  21. 21II
  22. 22III
  23. 23IV
  24. 24V
  25. 25VI
  26. 26VII
  27. 27VIII
  28. 28party,--they had stolen off alone for their foolhardy adventure. Nobody
  29. 29IX

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