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The Professor's House (Paperback)

by Willa Cather (Author)
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A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.


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A man set in his ways, Professor Godfrey S. Peter resists a seemingly practical move into a bigger house because the move threatens his well-ordered life. By the author of Death Comes to the Archbishop. (General Fiction). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Read Anything Cather!, Jul 16 2004
By G. Grisham "grmissouri" (St. Louis, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews
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If you are interested in Willa Cather read "My Antonia" first and then read everything else, including "The Professor's House". Cather is one of the best writers of the century and don't skip over her, just start somewhere besides this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars On aging and acceptance, Aug 22 2003
By B. H. Stewart (Cincinnati, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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Lately, I've turned away from fiction, because I haven't been able to find works that keep me turning those pages. When I stumbled across The Professor's House, I was delighted to find myself swept away and completely absorbed by Willa Cather's tender and disturbing tale of an ordinary man's confrontation with his feelings about place, family, and ageing. The professor's realization that he might have to forfeit the passion and vivacity he experienced in his youth and compromise with a "life without joy" was very poignant and provoking. Cather's prose is intelligent, but fluid and concise. I think it will go on my list of a dozen or more most memorable novels.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another great classic, Sep 26 2002
By Book 'Em (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
Cather can be difficult: read slowly and savor! You won't be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars How the Imagination Persists
Willa Cather's early novels of life on the American prairie, such as My Antonia and O Pioneers are well known. Read more
Published on Jul 5 2002 by Robin Friedman

5.0 out of 5 stars A deceptively simple prose style covering great depths
Cather's A PROFESSOR'S HOUSE is very different from the spirit-of-the-prairie book she's often so immediately associated with. Like O PIONEERS! Read more
Published on April 8 2001 by Jay Dickson

5.0 out of 5 stars Bittersweet novel of uncommon insight
This Cather novel can best be compared to a small symphony in a minor key. It is a gentle, bittersweet portrait of a successful scholar who finds himself emotionally isolated from... Read more
Published on Dec 26 2000 by K. Eames

4.0 out of 5 stars A journey into one man's lonely heart
The Professor's House is a novel that I read and re-read, in the same way that one turns again and again to a good friend, for solace. Read more
Published on Oct 20 2000 by dhuron

5.0 out of 5 stars A surprising favorite
I have to admit that when I was assigned this book for an Amer. Lit. class I was anything but excited at the prospect. Read more
Published on Jul 20 2000 by mrgrieves08

4.0 out of 5 stars Melt into Gorgeous Writing
I read this book in four or so hours straight. It was thefirst book I'd read by Willa Cather, but it definitely placed hersolidly in my top five greatest authors list. Read more
Published on April 21 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Slips by as a dream...
Somewhere I read that Cather will eventually top Hemingway as America's finest and most esteemed writer. Read more
Published on Mar 1 2000 by Eric Brotheridge

5.0 out of 5 stars All hail Willa Cather!
This is one of the most extraordinary novels I have ever read. The story contains such breathtaking beauty and sheer elegance that I am unable to put into words just what an... Read more
Published on Feb 6 2000 by D. Roberts

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books by Cather
Objectively speaking, this book as a whole is perhaps not quite as excellent as some of her other books like DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, but this nonetheless is one of my... Read more
Published on Mar 8 1999 by Robert Moore

4.0 out of 5 stars Great read.
This was a wonderful book. Her writing and insight are intoxicating. She touched on many points pertinent to middle age and she had a good story in there.
Published on Dec 30 1997

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