Death Comes for the Archbishop

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended. BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather, Mcgraw-Hill-Glencoe Staff

    Mcgraw-Hill-Glencoe Staff, Willa Cather. In his review of Death Comes for the Archbishop , Michael Williams wrote in The Commonweal : “ Her [ Willa Cather's ] book is a wonderful proof of the power of the true artist to penetrate and ...

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    The historical essay traces the artistic and spiritual development that led to its writing.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    By agreement the two friends were to meet at dawn in a certain field outside Riom on the fateful day, and there await the diligence for Paris. Jean Latour, having made his decision and pledged himself, knew no wavering.

  • Death Comes For The Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

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  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop: Large Print
    By Willa Cather

    There is something epic-and almost mythic-about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, although the story it tells is that of a single human life, lived simply in the silence of the desert.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    A portrait of an enduring friendship, from one of America’s most celebrated novelists. ‘Quite simply a masterpiece’ Daily Telegraph Two priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexico to reinvigorate Catholicism among the locals, ...

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop: Large Print
    By Willa Cather

    There is something epic-and almost mythic-about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, although the story it tells is that of a single human life, lived simply in the silence of the desert.

  • Death Comes For The Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    It is widely considered Cather’s masterpiece, centers on a pair of French missionaries working among Hispanic, Navajo, and Pueblo people of the New Mexico desert. It is the story of Father Latour and Father Valilan.

  • Death Comes For the Archbishop: in large print
    By Willa Cather

    Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    Set in the 1850s, this short novel is about the struggles and triumphs of a bishop, Jean Marie Latour, and his loyal friend and vicar, Father Joseph Vaillant.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop: Special Edition
    By Willa Cather

    We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, two French Jesuit priests travel to the American Southwest to establish a new Roman Catholic diocese. The novel follows the priests’ adventures, friendship, and spiritual journey.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    Bishop Jean Marie Latour and his friend Father Joseph Vaillant are venturing to New Mexico territory to establish a Roman Catholic diocese. But this is no easy task.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    ... coming and going. The sick man had received the Viaticum early in the morning. Some of the Tesuque Indians, who had been his country neighbours, came into Santa Fé and sat all day in the Archbishop's courtyard listening for news of him ...

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    Death Comes For The Archbishop shares a limitless, craggy beauty with the New Mexico landscape of desert, mountain, and canyon in which its central action takes place, and its evocations...

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop: Large Print
    By Willa Cather

    This concerns the efforts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in the New Mexico Territory. This novel was reprinted in the Modern Library series in 1931.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop: A Classic Novel of New Mexico
    By Willa Cather

    A towering work of twentieth-century American literature, Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop tells the story of the French Catholic priest Jean Marie Latour, the first bishop of the diocese of New Mexico, which was created after ...

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    By Willa Cather

    Willa Cather. NOTES Special thanks are owed to the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud , Nebraska . 1. Trout ... Crux . Eds . Ann Moseley , John J. Murphy , and Robert Thacker . Lincoln : Uni- versity of Nebraska Press , 2017 : 214 ...