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    Alexander's Bridge
    Alexander's Bridge
    Alexander's Bridge
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    Alexander's Bridge

    By Willa Cather

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    Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather. First published in 1912, it was re-released with an author's preface in 1922. It also ran as a serial in McClure's, giving Cather some free time from her work for that magazine.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAB Books
    Release dateMay 12, 2018
    ISBN9782291023364
    Alexander's Bridge
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    Willa Cather

    A prolific, confessedly compulsive poet and playright, Maureen Duffy published her first novel, ‘That’s How It Was’, in 1962. Since then she has written many novels including ‘Love Child, Gor Saga, Londoners’ and most recently, ‘Illuminations’, (1991) and ‘Ocean’s Razor ‘ (1993).

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