The Song of the Lark

Name: The Song of the Lark
Author: Willa Cather
ISBN: 9781910558546

Author: Willa Cather
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 352 pages
ISBN: 9781910558546
Published: 15 October 2014
Imprint: Sovereign

Artistic journey
self-discovery
music
ambition
resilience
Colorado
opera
talent
transformation
dedication

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Description

The novel follows an ambitious young heroine, Thea Kronborg, who leaves her hometown to go to the big city to fulfil her dream of becoming a well-trained pianist, a better piano teacher. When her piano instructor hears her voice, he realizes that this is her true artistic gift. He encourages her to pursue her vocal training instead of piano.

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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Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781802561326