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Title: A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

Author: Willa Cather

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A Collection of

Stories, Reviews and Essays

by

Willa Cather

CONTENTS

PART I: STORIES

Peter
On the Divide
Eric Hermannson's Soul
The Sentimentality of William Tavener
The Namesake
The Enchanted Bluff
The Joy of Nelly Deane
The Bohemian Girl
Consequences
The Bookkeeper's Wife
Ardessa
Her Boss

PART II: REVIEWS AND ESSAYS

Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Henry James
Harold Frederic
Kate Chopin
Stephen Crane
Frank Norris
When I Knew Stephen Crane
On the Art of Fiction

PART I

STORIES

_Peter_

"No, Antone, I have told thee many times, no, thou shalt not sell it
until I am gone."

"But I need money; what good is that old fiddle to thee? The very
crows laugh at thee when thou art trying to play. Thy hand trembles
so thou canst scarce hold the bow. Thou shalt go with me to the Blue
to cut wood to-morrow. See to it thou art up early."

"What, on the Sabbath, Antone, when it is so cold? I get so very
cold, my son, let us not go to-morrow."

"Yes, to-morrow, thou lazy old man. Do not I cut wood upon the
Sabbath? Care I how cold it is? Wood thou shalt cut, and haul it
too, and as for the fiddle, I tell thee I will sell it yet." Antone
pulled his ragged cap down over his low heavy brow, and went out.
The old man drew his stool up nearer the fire, and sat stroking his
violin with trembling fingers and muttering, "Not while I live, not
while I live."

Five years ago they had come here, Peter Sadelack, and his wife, and
oldest son Antone, and countless smaller Sadelacks, here to the
dreariest part of sout