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The Troll Garden and Selected Stories

Willa Sibert Cather

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The Troll Garden in a collection of short stories written by author Willa Cather

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .She rose and began undressing. Before she lay down she went to open the window. With her hand on the sill, she hesitated, feeling suddenly as though some danger were lurking outside, some inordinate desire waiting to spring upon her in the darkness. She stood there for a long time, gazing at the infinite sweep of the sky.

"Oh, it is all so little, so little there," she murmured. "When everything else is so dwarfed, why should one expect love to be great? Why should one try to read highly coloured suggestions into a life like that? If only I could find one thing in it all that mattered greatly, one thing that would warm me when I am alone! Will life never give me that one great moment?"

As she raised the window, she heard a sound in the plum bushes outside. It was only the house-dog roused from his sleep, but Margaret started violently and trembled so that she caught. . . Read More

Community Reviews

“The Troll Garden” by Willa Cather contains some of her earliest writing. She had published a collection of poetry titled “April Twilights” a couple of years earlier, and there are a couple of earlier short stories which are not included in this collection, but other than that this is the earliest e

This is Willa Cather's first book, a collection of short stories, all loosely tied to people who love the arts. A wealthy woman who runs a salon/artist colony is excoriated in print by one of her former protegees, and her "why did HE marry HER" husband proves he loves her by hiding the news from her

This is a short story collection and so I was automatically drawn to it. Don't let the 84 pages fool you, these are dense and well-written stories. They were also all stories that centered around the arts and as a speech/drama person I appreciated that element as well. Really I wish I could give 3.5

Not all about the west.

This is an excellent collection of short stories by a woman that I'd like to know more about. Every story in this book has to do with artists and disillusionment but not in a way that made me feel sad and unsatisfied. Willa Cather explores, as the back cover of the book says, "the devastated, romant

Illustrative of one of Cather's major strains in her fiction, art and artists. Some of the writing is florid reflecting the influence of Henry James, but the shift to what is best in her later writing is evident in "Paul's Case."

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