A Lost Lady
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  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241752050
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $14.99

A Lost Lady

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15 Jul 2025
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4 Oct 2016
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . .

Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel Herbert, her unwavering confidant. Yet, her irresistible charm and dazzling wit conceal a dangerous vulnerability – and her greatest secret. A significant inspiration for The Great Gatsby, this exquisite novella is a poignant elegy for a bygone era, fading into history.
  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241752050
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $14.99
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About the author

Willa Cather

Novels by Willa CatherAlexander's Bridge 1912 O Pioneers! 1913 The Song of the Lark 1915 My Ántonia 1918 One of Ours 1922 A Lost Lady 1923 The Professor's House 1925 My Mortal Enemy 1926 Death Comes for the Archbishop 1927 Shadows on the Rock 1931 Lucy Gayheart 1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl 1940
Short Fiction

The Troll Garden 1905 Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920 Obscure Destinies 1932 The Old Beauty and Others 1948 Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 1965 Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929 1972

Introducer Biography: Elaine Showalter is the author of the recent ground-breaking study of American women writers, A Jury of Her Peers, and the classic A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing.

Also by Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop
April Twilights and Other Poems
My Antonia
Alexander's Bridge
The Song of the Lark
Coming, Aphrodite!
O Pioneers!
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