Highlighting the the challenges people with cystic fibrosis face, and the people who face them. Join Gunnar Esiason and Julia Rae as they discuss the highs and lows of a life with...

Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through whats known today (but not in 1912) as a mid-life crisis. Although married to his...

O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The...

Alexanders Bridge is the first novel by Willa Cather, published under the name Willa Sibert Cather. Heavily influenced by the works of Henry James, the book tells the story of...

Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place supposedly located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an...

Stories and essays by Willa Cather - Summary by david wales

Mister Tidwell is a scholarly Oxford professor snatched out of his bookish world and pressed into service aboard Lord Nelson’s legendary British fleet—in the position of...