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The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories

by Willa Cather from 1905

About

Cather's first story collection (1905) includes 'Paul's Case' — her most frequently anthologized story, about a Pittsburgh boy who steals money to live for a week in New York hotels as the person he believes himself to be. The collection demonstrates Cather's characteristic themes: the clash between artistic aspiration and the limiting conditions of American provincial life, the beauty and brutality of desire, the cost of imaginative ambition. As group reading, 'Paul's Case' is one of the great single American short stories.

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The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories

Words
84.5k
Duration
~10 hr 34 min

18 sections

84.5k words
#TitleWords
1
On the Divide
5.6k41:49
2
Eric Hermannson's Soul
1.6k11:58
3
II
5.5k41:33
4
III
2.2k16:35
5
The Enchanted Bluff
3.8k28:39
6
The Bohemian Girl
3.6k27:09
7
II
9687:16
8
III
3.4k25:34
9
IV
1.4k10:50
10
V
1.5k11:27
11
VI
2.9k22:01
12
VII
1.7k12:36
13
VII
1.5k10:54
14
Flavia and Her Artists
10.3k77:35
15
The Sculptor's Funeral
14.7k110:03
16
The Garden Lodge
4.8k35:45
17
The Marriage of Phaedra
10.4k78:00
18
Paul's Case
8.6k64:13

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