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Youth and the Bright Medusa

Name: Youth and the Bright Medusa
Author: Willa Cather

Willa Cather

Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920. Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden.

“The world there was the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield that stretched to daybreak; to the west, a corral that reached to the sunset; between, the conquests of peace, dearer-bought than those of war.”

Willa Cather book Youth and the Bright Medusa

Youth and the Bright Medusa, "A Wagner Matinee" (1920)

“It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.”

Willa Cather book Youth and the Bright Medusa

Youth and the Bright Medusa, "A Gold Slipper" (1920)

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