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Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather's first novel, is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections.

Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges undergoing a mid-life crisis. Although married to Winifred, Bartley resumes his acquaintance with a former lover, Hilda Burgoyne, in London. The affair gnaws at Bartley's sense of propriety and... Read Full Overview

First published in 1912, "Alexander's Bridge" is American author Willa Cather's first novel. The story centers around Bartley Alexander, a famous engineer and bridge builder who is going through a mid-life crisis. Despite having a wife named Winifred, Bartley rekindles an old... Read Full Overview

The classic by Willa Cather.

Willa Cather's debut novel, telling the alluring tale of Bartley Alexander, an engineer famous throughout the world for the construction of bridges. Reaching midlife, Alexander grows tired of his passionless marriage and becomes reacquainted with a former lover in London. Torn... Read Full Overview

Bartley Alexander, renowned engineer of bridges, is a man with a past who 'looked as a tamer of rivers ought to look.' Discovered by his mentor 'sowing wild oats in London,' he returned to America and the commission that made his name. Now, married to his wife of ten years, a... Read Full Overview

Engineer Bartley Alexander appears to have a happy life in Boston with a successful career and a beautiful wife. He has been commissioned to design the Moorlock Bridge in Canada, the most important project of his career. With the onset of middle age, however, he grows increasingly... Read Full Overview

Alexander's Bridge is a work by Willa Cather now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic.

There is a pleasure in listening to the imagery of Alexander's Bridge that is similar to viewing a beautiful watercolor, as in the following description of a Boston street in late afternoon: "The sun sank rapidly; the silvery light had faded from the bare boughs and the watery... Read Full Overview

Willa Cather's first published novel, set in Boston, London, and Paris, is the story of a man unable to resolve the contradictions in his own nature. The central figures are Bartley Alexander, a world-famous engineer; his wife; Winifred, a Boston society matron; and his former... Read Full Overview

In this, Willa Cather's first novel, we find Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn bewteen his duties to his career and his wife, and his passion for an Irish actress. In the only critical edition available, we see how Cather uses urban settings and the figure of the... Read Full Overview

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