Audiobooks by Willa Cather

"Mujeres que reclaman su derecho a trabajar en un mundo de hombres, valientes guerreras indias, forajidas del Oeste americano, inmigrantes sin pelos en la lengua, heroínas atrapadas en tenebrosos bosques… Estas son algunas de las protagonistas de La nueva mujer: relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX. Las autoras elegidas por Gloria Fortún para esta antología —mujeres de vanguardia que desafiaron con la pluma y el papel las convenciones sociales— son el símbolo de los anhelos y luchas de una época que asistió al surgimiento del empoderamiento femenino. La nueva mujer reúne a diez escritoras que, después de haberse forjado una carrera a la sombra de un canon literario eminentemente masculino, brillan ahora con más fuerza que nunca gracias a la riqueza y diversidad de unos relatos que reflejan desde múltiples perspectivas la realidad de la condición femenina en un tiempo marcado por profundas transformaciones políticas y sociales. Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sui Sin Far, Zitkala-Ša, Susan Glaspell, Harriet E. Prescott Spofford, Catharine Maria Sedgwick y Mary Austin son las diez escritoras que forman parte de un libro imprescindible para comprender el nacimiento de la 'nueva mujer' en Estados Unidos durante el siglo XIX. Esta edición incluye un estudio crítico escrito por Gloria Fortún que ayuda a contextualizar la obra de cada una de las autoras seleccionadas. Grabado en español ibérico (España)."

Autores Varios, Willa Cather (Author), Ainhoa Miguel Carpintero, Marta García, Rosalía Díaz Niño (Narrator)

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[Hebrew] - גבירה אבודה

"אי שם במערב ארצות הברית, על גבעה קטנה בעיירה סוויט ווטר, חיים להם קפטן פורסטר המבוגר ואשתו הצעירה מריאן. הוא מחלוצי יישוב המערב, מאנשי החזון שהקימו את מסילות הרכבת מערבה, איש של חלומות אך גם של עקרונות מוסריים חסרי פשרות. והיא אישה מלאת חיים המצליחה להקסים את כל רואיה בהתנהלותה החיננית. ניל הרברט, נער מבני העיירה סוויט ווטר, מתבונן בזוג בהערצה לאורך שנות התבגרותו. הוא לא יכול להימנע מהתאהבות קלה במריאן פורסטר המסמלת עבורו את העולם הגדול, את היופי והעידון, את החלום ואת ערכה של נאמנות. 'כשגברת פורסטר הביטה בך, ידעת שהיא מכשפת. זה קרה באופן מיידי וחדר גם את המעטה העבה ביותר.' אך הפנטזיות של ניל נהפכות לאכזבות, לחלומות מנופצים ולבוז כאשר האישה הנערצת עלו מתגלה כפחות ממושלמת. עם שקיעת עידן חלוצי המערב האגדיים, מעמדה של מריאן פורסטר הולך ומאבד מחשיבותו. וניל מתבונן בצער כשהיא נסחפת בתהפוכות התקופה. 'גבירה אבודה', המיטיב לתאר את הדינמיות של חיי אדם בהיסטוריה הפרטית והמשותפת, קצר שבחים בביקורות, וזכה גם לשני עיבודים קולנועיים. וילה קאתר (1873-1947), אחת מהסופרים האמריקאים החשובים בתחילת המאה העשרים, זוכת פרס פוליצר, מזוהה מאוד עם נברסקה שבמערב התיכון. למרות חשיבותה, תורגם עד היום לעברית רק הרומן 'אנטוניה שלי' (עם עובד, 1952)."

Willa Cather (Author), עדי חבין (Narrator)

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Wonder Of Women - Suicide Stories

Amy Levy, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Lydia Maria Child, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Webb, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Philippa Forest, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela rowe, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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Wonder Of Women - Love Stories

"Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - Love - An Introduction2 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield3 - Uncle Abraham's Romance by Edith Nesbit4 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker5 - Some Ways of Love by Charlotte Mew6 - The Muse's Tragedy by Edith Wharton7 - The Sexton's Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell8 - A Middle Sized Artist by Charlotte Perkins Gilman9 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley10 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves11 - A Story of a Wedding Tour by Margaret Oliphant12 - The Locket by Kate Chopin13 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather14 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield15 - May Afternoon by Catherine Wells16 - The Night Before Thanksgiving by Sarah Orne Jewett17 - The Oculist by Catherine Wells18 - The Dream by Mary Shelley19 - The Dance by Zona Gale20 - The Dark Cottage by Mary Cholmondeley21 - The Way the World Is by Zona Gale22 - Psychology by Katherine Mansfield23 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie24 - Those Who Wait by Ethel Dell25 - An Unexpected Fare by Mary Tuttiett writing as Maxwell Gray26 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman27 - White Magic by Ella D'Arcy28 - A Symphony in Lavender by Mary Wilkins E Freeman29 - The Mass for the Dead by Edith Nesbit30 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze - Part 1 by Eliza Haywood31 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze - Part 2 by Eliza Haywood"

Catherine Wells, Charlotte Mew, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Clotilde Graves, Dorothy Parker, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Elia W Peattie, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ella D'Arcy, Ethel Dell, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Mary Tuttiett writing as Maxwell Gray, Mary Wilkins E Freeman, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Zona Gale (Author), Eve Karpf, Laurel Lefkow, Lisa Bowerman (Narrator)

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Willa Cather's Prairie Trilogy - O Pioneers! - The Song of the Lark - My Antonia - Unabridged

"The Prairie Trilogy is series of three novels centered around life in the Midwest during the late 19th/early 20th centuries by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. First, in 'O Pioneers!,' we meet Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm after her father dies and leaves her to care for her three siblings. While many immigrant families are giving up their farms and moving back to the city (or to their home countries), Alexandra decides to try to tough it out on the prairie. Next, in 'The Song of the Lark' we are introduced to Thea Kronborg, a Colorado piano teacher who discovers she has an amazing singing voice and, despite the long odds, attempts to become a world-renowned opera star. Finally, in 'My Antonia,' we follow the lives of two protagonists: orphan Jim Burden, who is shipped off to Nebraska to live with his grandparents after his parents die, and Ántonia, a young farm girl who is struggling to survive raise her family out of poverty. Three of the most celebrated novels of the mid-twentieth century, the books comprising 'The Prairie Trilogy' helped cement Willa Cather as one of the most important writers of her generation."

Willa Cather (Author), Sara Nichols (Narrator)

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The Top Ten Short Stories - American Women

"The top 10 short stories of all time written by British male authors.Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.Here, in this volume are distilled the true merits of men and their words. In literary terms the form takes many ways but crisply puts together and drives forward with narratives that reveal the width and depth of talents that justly remain household names to this day."

Edith Wharton, Louisa May-Alcott, Willa Cather (Author), Joe Darrell, Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross (Narrator)

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The Top Ten - American 19th

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this Century America strides into its own future. She ruptures herself in a bloody Civil War, crushes and removes Native Americans from their own sacred lands and she clothes herself as a superpower in waiting. Her literary might also begins to reach an expanding and diverse population eager for distraction from the hard labor of their lives. Our authors offer up a unique and unquestionably brilliant range of views in ten stories that helped to shape literature.1 - The Top 10 - The American 19th Century - An Introduction2 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce3 - Pauls Case by Willa Cather4 - Desirees Baby by Kate Chopin5 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane6 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman 7 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman8 - The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bram Stoker9 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne10 - Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville11 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe"

Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather (Author), Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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The Top Ten - 20th Century Women

"With the talents on display the most difficult task is choosing only ten. Their virtuosity, their craft and ambition scare belie the difficulties that society places upon most women. Their words cannot be denied, their literary heritage is safe forever. 1 - The Top Ten - 19th Century British Women2 - The Indian Orphan by Letitia Elizabeth Landon3 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley4 - Napolean and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte5 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot6 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards7 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 8 - A Story of a Wedding Tour 9 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy10 - Passed by Charlotte Mew11 - The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather (Author), Eve Karpf, Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross (Narrator)

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The Top Ten - 20th Century

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.Industrialisation and global wars have given man a new dimension as master of a world that he also pillages for his own short-term needs. Whilst many suffer, journalism begins a more widespread examination of why this is and authors begin to write for the plethora of journals and magazines that spring up to deliver broad based entertainment to the masses. In this volume the household names of literature speak for and on behalf of these uncertain and demanding times.1 - The Top 10 - The 20th Century - An Introduction2 - Pauls Case by Willa Cather3 - The Most Dangerous Game by Connell4 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald5 - August Heat by Harvey6 - The Gift Of The Magi by O Henry7 - The Dead by James Joyce8 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka9 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence10 - To Build a Fire by Jack London11 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft"

F Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Willa Cather (Author), Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The Women

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.There can be no doubt that within these ten stories genius abounds. These mistresses of the word, of the literary form, dazzle all of us with their choices, their narratives and their abundant talents.1 - The Top 10 - The Women - An Introduction2 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin3 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf4 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman5 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield6 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker7 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell8 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather9 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson10 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards11 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell"

Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather (Author), Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The US Authors of the South

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.‘The Old South’ is usually seen as an alluring, almost mysterious mythological land that the rest of America could never be. Side by side poverty and the genteel well-to-do have lived, on one side disparaging, on the other envious. Literary talents here are everywhere, detailing and witnessing for generations to come the inequality and iniquity that fuel much of its famed literature.1 - The Top 10 - US Authors of the South - An Introduction2 - The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain3 - The Caballero's Way by O Henry4 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather5 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson6 - A Cullenden of Virginia by Thomas Wolfe7 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd8 - The City of Refuge by Rudolph Fisher9 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow10 - Skulls in the Stars by Robert E Howard11 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson"

Mark Twain, Willa Cather (Author), Eric Meyers, Warren Keyes (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1900s - The Americans

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.A new century dawns, one in which America would become pre-eminent as its industrial might and military power rose above all others. In literature too its authors tackled new forms and new ideas, they shied away from little, immersing themselves and their readers in the promise of a new Century. 1 - The Top 10 - The 1900's - The Americans - An Introduction2 - The Great Good Place by Henry James3 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain4 - To Build a Fire by Jack London5 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather6 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry7 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar8 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane9 - The Defense of Strikerville by Damon Runyon10 - The Screaming Skull by F Marion Crawford11 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth Tarkington"

Damon Runyon, Willa Cather (Author), Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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