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Death Comes for the Archbishop

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A meditative New Mexico novel of faith, landscape, friendship, mission, and cultural encounter.

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Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop follows Bishop Latour and Father Vaillant through the deserts, villages, and missions of the American Southwest. Cather shapes religious history into a quiet epic of friendship, endurance, Native and Hispanic communities, memory, and sacred landscape.

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Willa Cather died in 1947, and Death Comes for the Archbishop was first published or composed in 1927; these dates support the public-domain basis for this edition.

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Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02BY WILLA CATHER
  3. 03DEATH COMES
  4. 04FOR THE
  5. 05ARCHBISHOP
  6. 06NEW YORK
  7. 07ALFRED A KNOPF--MCMXXVII
  8. 08WILLA CATHER
  9. 09ALEXANDER'S BRIDGE
  10. 10O PIONEERS!
  11. 11THE SONG OF THE LARK
  12. 12MY ANTONIA
  13. 13ONE OF OURS
  14. 14A LOST LADY
  15. 15THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE
  16. 16MY MORTAL ENEMY
  17. 17YOUTH AND THE BRIGHT MEDUSA
  18. 18DEATH COMES FOR THE
  19. 19ARCHBISHOP
  20. 20_PROLOGUE_
  21. 21AT ROME
  22. 22BOOK ONE
  23. 23_THE VICAR APOSTOLIC_
  24. 24THE CRUCIFORM TREE
  25. 25HIDDEN WATER
  26. 26THE BISHOP _CHEZ LUI_
  27. 27A BELL AND A MIRACLE
  28. 28BOOK TWO
  29. 29_MISSIONARY JOURNEYS_
  30. 30THE WHITE MULES
  31. 31THE LONELY ROAD TO MORA
  32. 32BOOK THREE
  33. 33_THE MASS AT ÁCOMA_
  34. 34THE WOODEN PARROT
  35. 35JACINTO
  36. 36THE ROCK
  37. 37THE LEGEND OF FRAY BALTAZAR
  38. 38BOOK FOUR
  39. 39_SNAKE ROOT_
  40. 40THE NIGHT AT PECOS
  41. 41STONE LIPS
  42. 42BOOK FIVE
  43. 43_PADRE MARTINEZ_
  44. 44THE OLD ORDER
  45. 45part of the high colour that was in landscape and gardens, in the
  46. 46books that they almost hid the crucifix hanging behind it. Books were
  47. 47THE MISER
  48. 48BOOK SIX
  49. 49_DOÑA ISABELLA_
  50. 50DON ANTONIO
  51. 51part of his life in New Orleans and El Paso del Norte, but he returned
  52. 52THE LADY
  53. 53BOOK SEVEN
  54. 54_THE GREAT DIOCESE_
  55. 55THE MONTH OF MARY
  56. 56DECEMBER NIGHT
  57. 57SPRING IN THE NAVAJO COUNTRY
  58. 58EUSABIO
  59. 59BOOK EIGHT
  60. 60_GOLD UNDER PIKE'S PEAK_
  61. 61CATHEDRAL
  62. 62A LETTER FROM LEAVENWORTH
  63. 63AUSPICE MARIA!
  64. 64BOOK NINE
  65. 65_DEATH COMES FOR THE
  66. 66ARCHBISHOP_

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