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Article: A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Willa Cather. (book reviews)
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- Studies in Short Fiction
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- January 1, 1996
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by Sheryl L. Meyering. New York: G. K. Hall, 1994. xvii + 286 pages. $60.
Willa Cather represents yet another instance of an American writer who produced a substantial body of quality short stories but whose reputation has rested largely on novels. In this regard she belongs to the party that includes Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner. Scholars and critics have commented at length on Cather's 13 novels, paying particular attention to works such as O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), my Antonia (1918), The Professor's House (1925), and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). For the most part, ...