Death Comes for the Archbishop
Book Details
| Title: | Death Comes for the Archbishop | ||||||||
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| Published: | 1927 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | William Heinemann Ltd | ||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, religion, Navajo Indians, Modern Library's 100 Best Novels | ||||||||
| Description: | Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather about the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in the New Mexico Territory. The story is based on two historical figures, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf and rather than any one singular plot, is the stylized re-telling of their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergy in New Mexico.
The novel has been listed in Life Magazine’s list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924-1944; Time’s 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005; Modern Library’s list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; and Western Writers of America 7th-best “Western Novel” of the 20th century.—Wikipedia. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 3,063 | ||||||||
| Pages: | 169  |
Author Bio for Cather, Willa
Willa Cather (7 December, 1873—24 April, 1947) born Wilella Sibert Cather was a novelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her novel One of Ours. Cather followed that up with Death Comes for the Archbishop in 1928, included on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century as well as Time’s one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
At age 9 Cather moved with her family from Virginia to frontier Nebraska, where from age 10 she lived in the village of Red Cloud. There she grew up among the immigrants from Europe—Swedes, Bohemians, Russians, and Germans—who were breaking the land on the Great Plains.
At the University of Nebraska, she showed a marked talent for journalism and story writing, and on graduating in 1895 she obtained a position in...
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