Synopses & Reviews
A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.
Synopsis
"I don't think it's a stretch to regard
The Professor's House as not only Cather's best work but as one of the five great novels in American literature."
--Keith Hale, author of Rupert Brooke of Rugby
"I sometimes think The Professor's House is Cather's masterpiece. It is almost perfectly constructed, peculiarly moving, and completely original."
-- A.S. Byatt, The Guardian
The Professor's House, combining as it does a profound study of individual consciousness with a tragic meditation on the nature of (especially American) civilization, deserves to be seen as one of the greatest and most relevant of the novels of the old century."
-- Donald Lyons, The New Centerion
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Reading Group Guide
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's reading of Willa Cather's
My Antonia and
The Professor's House. We hope that they will provide you with new ways of looking at--and talking
about--two novels that represent Cather's astonishing powers of narrative selection and juxtaposition; her ability to create believably complex characters who take on mythic dimensions in the reader's imagination, and the historical vision that could celebrate the American past without minimizing its hardships and moral ambiguities.