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I was searching for a short story to break up a few of the reads I have going on, and since this blizzard (which I posted on here) hit I longed for a story about winter and I recalled a famous Leo Tolstoystory about two men being trapped in a blizzard. Now I had read “Master and Man” many years ago—over twenty years, if not thirty—and it has always stuck with me. It really is a great short story. Actually it’s on the longer side of a short story. My edition ran for forty pages, which makes it close to a novella, and I had remembered it as a short novel. But Wikipedia, that ever pervasive corpus of knowledge, categorizes it as a short story. I also noticed while reading the Wikipedia entry that it was published in 1895, which makes it a relatively late story in Tolstoy’s body of work, and squarely in his most religiously inspired works.
First off, you can read it on line, and I believe this is the same translation I read.
The story is about a merchant who has this immediate opportunity to purchase a grove at a bargain price, and goes off to complete the deal before someone else takes it. Faced with impending bad weather, he brings along his servant. It’s winter and he misjudges the weather, an
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Summary and Study Guide
Overview
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather is the second novel in her classic American series entitled The Great Plains Trilogy. The trilogy includes O, Pioneers!(1913), The Song of the Lark(1915), and My Antonia(1918). Each novel in this trilogy explores different stories of women who find themselves challenged, nurtured, and built up by the natural beauty of the American West. These novels explore the conflicts and compromises when women either lean into or forge away from traditional gender expectations of early 20th-century America.
Told through six narrative parts, The Song of the Lark utilizes an omniscient third-person narrator who explores both the main character Thea’s emotions and thoughts and the interior thoughts of her friends. The novel traces Thea’s ascendancy into her identity as an artist. The Song of the Lark uses allusions to paintings and opera to portray how art across forms is connected by an important component: All art moves people to know themselves better. The Song of the Lark also explores the sacrifices necessary to achieve one’s ambitions, as well as how one’s past determines the person one becomes, and therefore the future one creates for oneself.
Cather is a classic American author whose novel
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Neighbour Rosicky
Willa Cather 1928
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