Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Troll Garden and Selected Stories
    The Troll Garden and Selected Stories
    The Troll Garden and Selected Stories
    Ebook341 pages5 hours

    The Troll Garden and Selected Stories

    By Willa Cather

    3.5/5

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1960
    The Troll Garden and Selected Stories
    Author

    Willa Cather

    Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an award-winning American author. As she wrote her numerous novels, Cather worked as both an editor and a high school English teacher. She gained recognition for her novels about American frontier life, particularly her Great Plains trilogy. Most of her works, including the Great Plains Trilogy, were dedicated to her suspected lover, Isabelle McClung, who Cather herself claimed to have been the biggest advocate of her work. Cather is both a Pulitzer Prize winner and has received a gold medal from the Institute of Arts and Letters for her fiction.

    Read more from Willa Cather

    Related to The Troll Garden and Selected Stories

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      One Of A Kind

      Nov 7, 2023

      One Of A Kind
      3 min read

    • Article

      No Space For Cowboys

      Oct 17, 2021

      No Space For Cowboys
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne

      Dec 18, 2021

      I became a Whitehead evangelist, reading all his books and pressing them on friends. The post A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Joshua Ferris Writes a Work of Hope

      Aug 2, 2021

      This was always going to be about Joshua Ferris’s dad. “You catch me pretty fresh,” the author deadpans over Zoom. “I haven’t talked about it.” The “it” refers to his long-awaited new novel, A Calling for Charlie Barnes, which publishes in September.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Howl Palace

      Sep 15, 2019

      Last week, I finally had to put Howl Palace up for sale. Years of poor financial planning had led to this decision, and I tried to take some comfort in my agent’s belief in a buyer who might show up with an all-cash offer. My agent is a highly organi

      25 min read

    • Article

      Low Expectations

      Feb 1, 2019

      Low Expectations
      7 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Dec 1, 2022

      Nothing is as important to our ability to survive as our ability to hurt. -Haider Warraich, The Song of Our Scars, 2022 In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead. -William Blake, T

      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2022

      1. Here there’s no rainy season.Sun scalds my forehead,yet the pool is empty. Beside it,a toppled table, its glass surface shattered.The asphalt is too hot for bare feet. 2. Far away: white hillocksand white dunes under a deepblue sky. Swirling winds

      5 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2021

      I learned the world through the bottoms of my feet, barein the creeks of summer, stepping on pebbles, the squidgeof moss between my toes. On hot asphalt, the hop and skipover cracks, feet already toughened by bramble, dirt, the pricklyground of pine

      4 min read

    • Article

      Perfect Prose II

      May 15, 2020

      Perfect Prose II
      4 min read

    • Article

      Hook, Line And Sinker

      Oct 18, 2018

      Hook, Line And Sinker
      4 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky

      May 12, 2020

      Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky
      7 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Jun 1, 2022

      Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. —Adam Zagajewski, “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” tr. by Clare C

      4 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Jun 4, 2018

      I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. —Fred Allen I have always wondered, in reading travels, at the childish joy travellers felt at meeting people they knew, and their sense of loneliness when they did not, in

      4 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Jan 1, 2022

      The painting is of a door, its wood so warpedwith moisture it cannot close. It stays ajar leaving a sliver of light—enough to suggestsomething sweet and almost unreachable behind the door—and you sit in yourroom working on the bills or those comforti

      4 min read

    • Article

      All I Want For Christmas

      Dec 16, 2020

      IT was more than an icicle. More like an icy boulder, oversized and murkily white, faceted like a cartoon jewel and, shortly, dripping. It had lurked beneath a low stone bridge at the bottom of the wood, where sycamore thickets bald for winter gave w

      18 min read

    • Article

      Reginald’s Party

      Jul 10, 2022

      For the fourth time that evening, Reginald smoothed his moustache in the mirror. It was perfect. Was it? Just a touch here… Now it was perfect. Soon his guests would arrive—only a few this evening, a small coterie from the Mayfair Club, on whom he co

      27 min read

    • Article

      Spell

      Apr 25, 2018

      Spell
      4 min read

    Reviews for The Troll Garden and Selected Stories

    3.5/5

    27 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Willa Cather is one of my favorite authors. She shows such great imagination along with her insight into the Midwestern audience.
    • 4/5
      Willa Cather’s first collection of short stories (originally published in 1905) remains a vital introduction to her style, interests, cultural milieu, and emotional commitments. Katherine Anne Porter’s afterword to this edition is itself distinctively mannered, forthright, and clear-eyed. Cather’s protagonists are often artists, either musicians or painters. They are either cut off from their art through impoverished distance (“A Wagner Matinee”) or through illness (“A Death in the Desert”) or death itself (“The Sculptor’s Funeral” and “The Marriage of Phaedra”). Sometimes wealth is a bar to one’s artistic resonances (“The Garden Lodge”). At other times it is clear that wealth proffers no route to artistic sensibility (“Flavia and Her Artists”).However, the story for which the collection remains known (“Paul’s Case”) is only tangentially connected to the arts. Unless how one lives one’s life could be considered an artistic creation. If so, then Paul has a singular vision of how he wishes to perceive himself and his world, and how he wants to be seen or, perhaps, unseen. His mechanism of achieving this vision (grand theft) ensures its demise. But for that brief period, isn’t he truly alive? Until, that is, he is truly dead. No doubt many young “cases” have been compared to Paul’s case. No doubt many more will. It’s an unsettling and still unsettled debate.There is a great deal to think about in these stories, some of which have dated. One thing that struck me on this reading was Cather’s assumption, or insistence, that even those living in poverty or near poverty on the American frontier would be longing for, had a right to, the cultural and artistic richness of the whole world. And nothing save distance and means cuts them off from what is after all part of their human condition. I fear that is a viewpoint now vanished.Still worth reading.

    Book preview

    The Troll Garden and Selected Stories - Willa Cather

    y1^book_preview_excerpt.html|#Ǒ嫔6`П=bG$mw%cyCniz2zIC?WKX!>yap]{CuNTO)kD[ndQ}n[i˶Q7/|ﱖׯƷ?7٪/a]CC-b'-2v_eXS|=<~c SsX`sҵ3Tmof j^fzZX cLp{, :2tOw'ޢN[{6~ Ym9OVwFlJ^wG(/%uslOƍÓ4v㡋p1cMlIQ ?byX) dr Zخ]u\K]%$ܫ9ƮJBjthOPpC0ϞJ)A{)څanUZ0$PWj`"+=,wL[BuYCYJKE.KZ]21xh>3w5.cJ]~4~1#7MkZR)H8,1ŝRK5 k߹@;i|)KėA*fm)LGGtO|~dTx 8#g;-Ω0POx^ŤvcΎl%ma]G?m:J,nPu63킇8$9@U=TG6<{8JNpm`!tf4@8<"EHocg?, #CXMt!8 oGF62 pΗ>кqWDĠׄg@;>aZ/!M.kꡅB[@s#"z [3_~}{ +ݤ $E =ޕvAa&z>'Iq'ŎPau#1*C]ePdíc72{ydZ,rED/?0Mxˊ(`SMGU絷 jS8w?(Í^n۾5-EqaQ9f#mOѬ6D2̩R~G ˽.8yݕ1o%m0>:>铺P/rUٶOc2ÐKLeKEцn3wvof Q@9+c H"r-ls-^A V>=v4rZMj)E@d7L~a蓷 O!?A+=xRG f,!da ݚ @3TZ4r$y%Lo*tJ:lMJfKH *_!7F繰v(p+TSl4fd9dT d&qTV~k`sL[煵Ev7֎im `5x^A#\I2Ө :xwBe2-!um[| ˩9*8o:?+TLt?@V$U_R'xKYxAzEGI&M3C9+C<@v3s51$ΨPmmrEYԭXJksrK#.|)@1,9"[ojߧEsn6Tv5_֦Q9’䊸hAP]*IwA6Eό9?FM73TV?0ʳO[љFZQ) 7LT4MX;"BV mI(n qu?WUm? Qgg8Emk5 6$'d3^`7V X?@hB>?Hyz*EJ&eQܓGW8jr"a#E‡)w&<VZ/9_50I0"Q(lRpa N"8l>%IMElE![>8(Sv^Zّڒ8`'X E0;CAk6GL'9Vf/2E#R]0/92̴(ufFA o,6hi6{zg3JS) ml5Ysc8e?1?Vۍq?HYcJIwHyΓQqܬ2B%/B8#*Yn2ZjYT@2.[:۳thlц oa ꄎXakGjlYﹾ J:ڊ4{P8w cmN|5+}Cc`u[X2N՞΍9_8޷,9Z⳾-Gcj)JIJu^O7g($BrŪܲƥWXlr E4 ϔg]ُe4@ ]؈b'f+7>NeNj ֨4 m0B)=tT;&[!j8bŹv%C*.LuWX-h=Y$GXtr 5Y9=3?Ul7< k a9mM2'YCBe ':{RKY(,,2gb1ߙ8٩Pjp*6\p08%0,27ud8f=[ZNghc$tiF#Ő3a7V-mGhο ș 7hŐ7f6{OeSŝ5tHo)gaZCŦ 0rZŰe5 OdzdT\ 6:fߝBl5LX56;SMvwgMیrsic1p:T)0֛RJױD(6TJz^ZBj"24h42_ {, n!]5LyADY "(Q 4XZ٠Mm,`PrvMF8Mb298rivHҿnS2?/0:7wR#}TXz3lg\Dkht_Wz45sVi,+q˘D->%$" ȉHBNapV3G7 KYobFn]>`8fC/~Wb}޿ӯ_CZ':,]o}k(@w ;vD8 U6yc+|'`é~XI8'U>5{Q4aQ`E)̆Zϩ%gqw9X*?P-x&jCm)K1Cy>iG żQ6bxS;oE#7.X9s Qj^C@}@v⃵IU12Vf:O9VYIeF Ԣmk]i6g!ŌCh.dGd8BoY9ӱIus}]R;oQ;wIu_ *WG.`6ukQ\A| ʱeR=zꄮ kie3{5<9]&&үʐtڃh[,=·M{KAWX^3Jg1}T W6\ sJ尉X*Gg8&-b%Q:kQ4nhu |Ϊ;"cH7_hˋ|nbQqM2TOP_rrd<4FPr)^".ذl@M術8 >L$Ɓ;.Fn8,° [iLPy&D f  8Dd 5ۓS̹Uw2Jz;RBU{Y~h9ysڎxAWH/m BEJt{7n;K3+JR58kw嗅1Jx50a߽29`6Lwrs=WtT4P>[bv.:KjԊ2 ފ]4L jE=56-;)sV݄C &MƟ3-j*=Zp聀<=c Pd/xN:]]Φ b󷮞ciL4ڍv6OA)OQgn5:38')~JV63;5zJʷŏm<=HrTO_`Q#\m4VtкDkxv+FG5lb#AqHs9|`lh8Mh%\pQFpRLvaIsg2OduN>5OЯ5}I&PCO3iy8Jj{7KzhCc}`j&80޸zM`CWl 4h `cgo4SRi ?ϣQ6^=y^"T) &eb5;9̈́n㒫ݩjϭ&贱^x*!wZ;aRʄ%ϴFPҁ'f KoezޚIL?}F vYzYHn}QM55ޫO>tW~2<*ֈҗ#PHqS}; R3Ioϱ3p pXK莥l t$y{?n L Svw5E>ةޑ,^9R!YhdjrV5V:iǫbW{TB|&\tk[h~ ֝378v;nc[A 4H+˭ɧE.=+=_*0{$#ír܈ߡ>Դ]ΖyI j#f<zYʜGRG:K@RMǣ#\{~><`=3snދ-r{:2n4MΝK㷇QJyIMV;FTOTïzS*-_m﷞_`yzgȗ^ N-(շqM5Cu ~_H[%>f[?c-qjF{w\<U@)Y*iw]emx̸xZ[olgR8ȡCnᨊWKS 9S x9Y!~TGxdb˪KVk3xtC%>DCRN tu8Fl_2yt)rC6bЄJH7m<,Bvx(Vͽ<ݝi nlnyU]NO~D#.S fLd䛽);ؒ~ m؜[ZZqKw )~& "7 {墽,Zo{ԱfJM[|x]i3DeQR.RnGlV+>U۩]~W[Sxlc>k%_wa Wjz-T͆L9go _uw*|O#q@t3gΩsL?;ݔ\JEj9v,MkNbB{~:H}<&;t)D\R~IFO滄Ē6Phn:Oֲo6@iF_D)>1\
    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1