Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

On writing : critical studies on writing as an art / Willa Cather ; with a foreword by Stephen Tennant. - New York : A.A. Knopf, c1949, t.p. 1962.

Third printing, February 1962. First published in 1949.

Four letters : On Death comes for the Archbishop. On Shadows on the rock. Escapism. On The professor's house -- The novel demeuble -- Four prefaces : The best stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. Gertrude Hall's The Wagnerian romances. Stephen Crane's Wounds in the rain and other impressions of war. Defoe's The fortunate mistress -- My first novels (there were two) -- On the art of fiction -- Katherine Mansfield -- Light on adobe walls (an unpublished fragment)


Literature -- History and criticism.--Literature -- History and criticism.