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The Burglar's Christmas

Author
Willa Cather
Series
Christmas Books
Language
English
Length
40 pages
ISBN
9781911144571
Published
15 December 2015
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Willa Cather
  • Christmas
  • Xmas
  • American novel
  • realism
  • naturalism
  • Great Plains
  • faming
  • art
  • awakening

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A beautiful Christmas story of love, forgiveness and uneasy life. Set in Chicago on a bitterly cold Christmas night, William, considers stealing both to satisfy his hunger and to find excitement in his dull life, but when a woman drops a parcel he gives it to her instead of running off with it. He feels as if he is a failed thief, in the same manner as he has failed at everything - college, journalism, real estate, performing. He then walks into a house in an attempt to steal the jewellery, and his own mother finds him there.

Author

Willa Cather was an American Pulitzer Prize winning author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Antonia. Although Cather began her writing career as a journalist, she made a distinction between journalism, which she saw as being primarily informative, and literature, which she saw as an art form.

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