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Tried and true... Willa Cather is a great author. Her emphasis on character and characterization, especially through subtlety, is a strength, as is her skill at making setting important. This novella takes place in the Midwest, the Southwest, and to a lesser extent the East. I enjoyed the characters' internal conflicts, especially Godfrey's, and how they manifested externally. I liked the interplay between past and present, and how past relationships affect the present. The plot and the drama were not the star here, but the characters and settings kept the story moving in a way that, for me, had me turning the pages.
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From Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather, The Professor's House is a vivid look into the domestic life of a 1920s Midwestern town and its people. Godfrey St. Peter, a professor at the unnamed Midwestern university near Lake Michigan, is preparing to move into a new home with his wife. As he looks upon the shabby house he's grown comfortable in, St. Peter muses about his life and his scholarship, philosophizing particularly on the people whom he's loved. His relationship with his wife and his daughters have become more and more strained over the years as St. Peter has alienated himself…
