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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 812 EAN: 9781604595123 ISBN: 1604595124 Label: Wilder Publications Manufacturer: Wilder Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 140 Publication Date: October 24, 2008 Publisher: Wilder Publications Studio: Wilder Publications Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Professor Godfrey St. Peter doesn’t like the new direction that his life has taken. When he and his wife move into their new house, he decides to keep his study at the old house so that he will not have to let go of the way life used to be. After a gas leak, causing a near death experience, that he almost welcomed, he realizes that he needs to find a new way to cope. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Oddest, Most Wonderful Book I've Read in YearsWilla Cather is one of the top five American writers. She gets little notice, it seems, today. I find that very strange, given the feminist movement in America. I've read three of her other books and this is the oddest, and most wonderful, or perhaps I forget how O Pioneers, Death Comes for the Archbishop and My Antonia affected me so greatly. Nothing seems to happens in her books and yet they blow me away and I remember them always. I do not exaggerate that they haunt me. I know ... Read More Rating:  - Worth reading but not Cather's bestI am a huge Willa Cather fan and have been reading her novels in the order she wrote them. I started "The Professor's House" in eager anticipation, because I just LOVED "A Lost Lady," the book that preceded it. "The Professor's House" has many, many good elements, but ultimately I was disappointed. The last part of the book was unworthy of what had gone before. In the end, I felt as though I'd invested a lot in the Professor and that that investment had not paid off. I'm glad I read ... Read More Rating:  - A Classic DudThose expecting something as vivid and moving as "My Antonia" will be sorely disappointed by this book. Ms. Cather was at her worst when she wrote in imitation of earlier lady novelists such as Edith Wharton or Henry James, and the entire first half of this novel concerns the intrigues of a Midwest Brahmin family. During this part there is absolutely no plot, just tedious description and some of the most stilted dialogue ever written. The cardboard characters include the good-natured protagonist, Professor ... Read More Rating: - A most enjoyable reading experienceI've been reading some of the Cather books and have enjoyed all of them. The best part of this book is her story within a story technique. Her descriptions of the American southwest are outstanding. This book held my attention, especially as it progressed. It is not as good as "My Antonia", which to me is her all time best, but it is an excellent reading experience. Rating: - I really really really wanted to like this bookI read My Antonia and loved it so much that I consider it one of my favorite books. And, that's why I really really really wanted to like this book. But after giving it a chance for about 218 pages, I couldn't bear it any longer. The problems I have with this book are as follows: 1) I understand the book's plot of the professor trying to find meaning in his life. That's the book I was looking for. The problem is that the Tom Outland character does not get you there and most of ... Read More 
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