58:. While little is known about the plot, this final novel of hers is centered on its two main protagonists, who have both been injured: André has had his tongue cut out for blasphemy, and Pierre's hands have been maimed as a result of his theft by hanging him by his thumbs. Of the surviving fragments, sin and reconciliation are major themes, and specifically, the religious redemption and conversion of André to
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complied with her wish and destroyed almost all of the manuscript for the novel. This decisionâto have Lewis destroy the manuscript, instead of Cather destroying it herselfâsuggests she intended to finish the novel before she died. While only one fragment was originally thought to have survived
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is a key component. For this reason, it is believed that the text was intended to be one of "cruelties" and "splendours". But even though violence and cruelty was apparently a significant part of the book, Cather withheld its description from the child protagonists and from the reader. A
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Lewis's burning, additional fragments were obtained from Cather's nephew's estate following his death in 2011. These additional fragments confirm that not only was Cather moved by French
Catholicism, but that it had such a pronounced importance on her that
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state is the center of critique. Scholar John P. Anders understands Cather's preoccupation with fourteenth-century blasphemy as "appropriately allegorical and a fitting coda" to Cather's own sexual identity, which many understand to be lesbian.
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Collins, Jack (1988â1989). "The literary endeavor of Willa Cather".
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The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the
History of Christian Science
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Craft and character: Texts, method, and vocation in modern fiction
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Presentations, Talks, and
Seminar Papers -- Department of English
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Woods, Carly S.; Ewalt, Joshua P.; Baker, Sara J. (August 2013).
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435:. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 80.
158:. New York: Vintage Books. 1956. pp. 175, 177, 197, 211.
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Willa Cather: the letters and novels of a romantic modernist
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Murphy, John J. (2011). "Toward completing a triptych: The
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is substantially distinct from her other
Catholic novels,
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Willa Cather and France: In search of the lost language
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1058:The Strategy of the Were-Wolf Dog
18:Unpublished novel by Willa Cather
639:"Willa Cather's last four books"
1149:El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional
780:. Associated Press. 12 May 2011
684:Reynolds, Guy (25 March 2003).
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921:Death Comes for the Archbishop
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981:The Elopement of Allen Poole
707:. Viking Press. p. 265.
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156:Five stories by Willa Cather
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1532:Willa Cather Birthplace
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1205:The Marriage of Phaedra
1051:The Burglar's Christmas
242:Jewell, Andrew (2017).
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1191:Flavia and Her Artists
1184:The Sculptor's Funeral
1100:Eric Hermannson's Soul
995:A Son of the Celestial
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879:The Song of the Lark
197:"Wharton and Cather"
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1331:Coming, Eden Bower!
1254:The Enchanted Bluff
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1482:A Lost Lady
1474:Adaptations
1392:collections
1390:Short story
1359:Two Friends
1226:The Profile
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893:One of Ours
872:O Pioneers!
91:Edith Lewis
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784:8 February
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