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SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
by Cather, Willa
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- first
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1940. First edition. Her last novel, the story of Sapphira Colbert, a bitter but privileged white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young enslaved woman. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of the people enslaved there (Wikipedia). Spine toned as usually seen otherwise near fine with barest wear; in price-clipped dust jacket slightly darkened on spine and rear panel with very minor wear at top of spine, small bookseller's ticket to top corner rear flap, and small piece of tape on verso.
Synopsis
Willa Cather was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1873. When she was ten years old, her family moved to the prairies of Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. At the age of twenty-one, she graduated from the University of Nebraska, and she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. In 1903, her first book, April Twilights, a collection of poems, was published, and two years later The Troll Garden, a collection of stories, appeared in print. After the publication of her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge, in 1912, Cather devoted herself full time to writing, and over the years she completed eleven more novels (including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, The Professor’s House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop ), four collections of short stories, and two volumes of essays. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours in 1923. She died in 1947.
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- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55984
- Title
- SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
- Author
- Cather, Willa
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
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