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The Professor’s House
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A modern American novel of memory, scholarship, family tension, loss, and inward exile.
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The Professor’s House
The Professor’s House follows Godfrey St. Peter as success, family change, and memories of a gifted student unsettle his sense of life. This edition is for readers of Willa Cather, American modernism, academic fiction, memory, and the costs of achievement.
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Willa Cather died in 1947, and The Professor’s House was first published in 1925. These dates support the public-domain basis for the source text used in this English edition.
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The Professor’s House
Willa Cather
_by_
“A turquoise set in silver,
wasn’t it? ... Yes, a turquoise
set in dull silver.”
--LOUIE MARSELLUS
_For Jan, because he likes narrative_
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- 01Full text
- 02BOOK ONE
- 03THE FAMILY
- 04I
- 05II
- 06III
- 07IV
- 08V
- 09VI
- 10VII
- 11VIII
- 12IX
- 13X
- 14XI
- 15part me from that blanket.”
- 16XII
- 17XIII
- 18XIV
- 19XV
- 20XVI
- 21XVII
- 22BOOK TWO
- 23TOM OUTLAND’S STORY
- 24I
- 25II
- 26III
- 27IV
- 28V
- 29VI
- 30VII
- 31BOOK THREE
- 32THE PROFESSOR
- 33I
- 34II
- 35III
- 36IV
- 37V
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