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Title	:	The Song of the Lark (Great Plains Trilogy #2)
Author	:	Willa Cather
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 417 pages
Published	:	May 10th 1983 by Mariner Books (first published 1915)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. American. Novels. Music

The Song of the Lark (Great Plains Trilogy #2) Paperback | Pages: 417 pages

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Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape. Thea Kronborg, an aspiring singer, struggles to escape from the confines her small Colorado town to the world of possibility in the Metropolitan Opera House. In classic Cather style, The Song of the Lark is the beautiful, unforgettable story of American determination and its inextricable connection to the land. "The time will come when she'll be ranked above Hemingway." -- Leon Edel

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Original Title:	The Song of the Lark
ISBN:	0395345308 (ISBN13: 9780395345306)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Great Plains Trilogy #2
Characters:	Thea Kronborg, Howard Archie, Ray Kennedy, Professor Wunsch, Andor Harsanyi, Madison Bowers, Fred Ottenburg
Setting:	Colorado(United States) Chicago, Illinois(United States) Arizona(United States) …more New York City, New York(United States) Denver, Colorado(United States) …less

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Thea Kronborg grows up in the remote frontier town of Moonstone in the 1890s. As her artistic nature awakens, her hometown and the people she grew up with become the cocoon she must shed in order to realize her potential as a great opera singer.Thea sometimes seems cold in the way she distances herself from family and friends in order to further her education, inviting us to contemplate the conflicted nature of the artist. At times Thea seems to feel torn and melancholy about cutting ties and at



This is a gorgeous book, one of my all-time favorites. I've read it twice and taken from it numerous inspiring quotes that guide my life. "But if you decide what it is you want most, you can get it. Not everybody can, but you can. Only, if you want a big dream, you've got to have nerve enough to cut out all that's easy, everything that's to be had cheap."

Most mornings I wake to the songs of larks, so when Christmas Eve found us stuck inside of our home because of flooding (my front and back yards were pines in ponds), I chose to hear The Song of the Lark in words. This is my third Cather book this year and after having been introduced to her works intimately, I can now safely say that curling up with a Cather book will always be a good choice.However, this book is not about the song of birds. It is a book that celebrates finding one's muse; in

I can't say this is my favorite Cather novel; My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop are much better. Thea Kronborg is not the easiest character to live with for 400 pages. Not only is she tough and determined, but often sullen and defeatist. Even the sensitive, understanding man who falls in love with her thinks of her sometimes as "a little cold and empty, like a big room with no people in it." Nor is small-town, small-minded western America a place where I often like to hang out,

Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little." Willa CatherThe Song of the Lark by Willa Cather is a novel after my own heart. When I stumbled on Dolors' beautifully crafted review of this book by an author I have never read, I felt that knowing tug that signaled pleasure and promise. I was right but I had not expected to feel a familiar

3.5 starsI love how this book portrays an empowered woman who achieves success as a singer though her talent, work ethnic, and independence. This type of coming-of-age story often only occurs with boys and men. Cather, however, follows her protagonist Thea throughout her childhood in eastern Colorado all the way up to her rising fame as an artist in New York. Thea defies the expectations placed on women to act docile and domestic; she prioritizes herself and her ambitions and thus has a happy