A searing coming-of-age story of a young singer, set against the backdrop of the 1890s American West.
The Song of the Lark follows Thea Kronborg as she tries to leave her small-town life to pursue her aspirations of becoming a singer. Blessed with a beautiful voice, Thea travels beyond her small Colorado hometown to the major cities of the U.S. and on to Europe, discovering her voice and fulfilling her dreams. But Thea must come to terms with her humble beginnings and forge new relationships, finding herself as she finds her voice.
Part of a boldly designed series of classics, with wider margins for notes, this book is perfect for design-lovers and students alike.
“People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again – but it finds a tougher surface.”
The Song of the Lark follows Thea Kronborg as she tries to leave her small-town life to pursue her aspirations of becoming a singer. Blessed with a beautiful voice, Thea travels beyond her small Colorado hometown to the major cities of the U.S. and on to Europe, discovering her voice and fulfilling her dreams. But Thea must come to terms with her humble beginnings and forge new relationships, finding herself as she finds her voice.
Part of a boldly designed series of classics, with wider margins for notes, this book is perfect for design-lovers and students alike.
“People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again – but it finds a tougher surface.”
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Reviews
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic
The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work
In her writing, an almost bardic ability to hold us with stories coexists with a blazing commitment to a moral view of human distinction and human turpitude that recalls Wharton without the cynicism and Conrad without the weightiness . . . Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page
The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway
She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers