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A Lost Lady (Vintage Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780679728870
ISBN: 0679728872
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: June 16, 1990
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: June 16, 1990
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Compact and beautiful
Many other reviewers have expressed more or less my sentiments about this book, but I shall add my own voice. 'A Lost Lady' is very short but extremely rich, with the elegance of a waltz but the depth and richness of a symphony. The style is capable, but limpid and graceful; the characters are sympathetic and their experiences meaningful. Cather paints a beautiful picture of a 'golden age' in decline. This is rightfully a classic. Highly recommended for all interested in American fiction, or good ... Read More
Rating: - A Captivating Novellete!
What a beautiful story! What a magnificent writer Willa Cather is. This relatively short story is sure to captivate any fan of hers who has not had the pleasure of perusing this gem yet. If you enjoyed "My Antonia" and/or "O Pioneers!", then I can guaranty you, you will simply love this novella.
"A Lost Lady" is the story of Marian Forrester and her much older, but very charming and amicable husband Captain Daniel Forrester. The Forrester's live in the small Western town of Sweet ... Read More
Rating: - A tiny gem of a book. You'll be thinking about it long after you're finished.
Critic Leon Edel wrote of Cather, "The time will come when she'll be ranked above Hemingway." Well, I'm there! In fact, I've been there since I finished "O Pioneers." For the last several years, I've been reading her books in order and just marvel at Cather's talent, her insights, and the economy of her writing.
I was disappointed in "One of Ours," the Pulitzer-Prize winning book that preceded "A Lost Lady.' The Midwest sequences in "One of Ours" were fine, but Cather seemed lost in ... Read More
Rating: - Frontier loneliness invades this marvalous novel.
Once again Willa Cather vividly and yet quietly brings out the inherent loneliness of the American homesteading West.
Set in a small railroad town, the story focuses on one young man's perception of a "lady" who he sees as unlike any other that he has know. Beautiful, lively, kind, aloof yet she shows a warmth and depth that Neil (the protaganist) was unused to in his frontier town.
Over time, heart-ache and isolation eventually cause her to lose her soul.
Cather ... Read More
Rating: - A Book About Old Society
Compelling in its description of time and place, A Lost Lady is about old railroad society and chronicles the graceful standout Marian Forrester, a great lady of the old school. In a time where ladies wore dresses and were hosts to house parties and dinner parties, Mrs. Forrester, the second wife of Daniel Forrester, comes from California to a small railroad town in the midwest called Sweet Water to homestead and receive great men of the railroad at her home. She falls upon hard times and new money takes ... Read More
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