The novel, edited according to standards set by the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association, presents a clean, authoritative text of the first edition. The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition includes a historical essay providing fresh insight into the novel and Cather's writing process, photographs and maps, and explanatory notes providing a full range of biographical and historical information. This book bears little resemblance to those other two novels, begging the question whether the trilogy is really a trilogy at all. The Song of the Lark presents Cather’s vision of a true artist. The Song of the Lark, originally published in 1915, is the second novel in Willa Cathers Prairie Trilogy, coming after O Pioneers and before My Ántonia. As she makes her way in the world from an unlikely background, Thea distills all her experiences and relationships into the power and passion of her singing, despite the cost. The Song of the Lark is a 1915 novel by Willa Cather. Jules Bréton, The Song of the Lark, 1884. Set from 1885 to 1909, the novel traces Thea’s long journey from her fictional hometown of Moonstone, Colorado, to her source of inspiration in the Southwest, and to New York and the Metropolitan Opera House. This is Cather s coming-of-age classic-the story of a young artist who leaves the mediocrity of her home town to seek fame and success in the big city. Cathers Song of the Lark is a novel about the artistic development of Thea Kronberg as she moves from her rural beginnings in Colorado to Chicago and the Southwest on her way to becoming a famous opera singer. Thea’s early life, however, has much in common with Cather’s own. Willa Cather’s third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg, a character inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad.

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