In a small Nebraska railroad town, the Forrester house is famous for its hospitality and for Marian Forrester, the captain’s graceful, much younger wife. Young Niel Herbert worships her from boyhood, and as the pioneer generation fades and harder, meaner men take over, he watches her adapt to the new world in ways he can hardly forgive.
One of Cather’s most perfect short novels, an elegy for the passing of the frontier. Download the free EPUB.