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Youth and the Bright Medusa

Author
Willa Cather
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
5 hours 43 minutes
ISBN
9781802568813
Published
8 September 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Willa Cather
  • American novel
  • realism
  • naturalism
  • Great Plains
  • faming
  • art
  • awakening
  • thought provoking
  • social order

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Description

Cather’s stories follow singers, artists, and climbers chasing the bright lure of art and fame. Beauty and ambition cut both ways: triumph on the stage, loneliness off it, love that will not wait for glory. Spoken as sharp portraits of youth learning what the Medusa of art can give, and what it costs.

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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