Willa Cather was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, creating in indelible novels and stories a rich panorama of place and experience among pioneers and farmers, artists and youthful lovers, immigrants and their striving children. Here, for the first time, the Library of America’s definitive three-volume edition is available in a collector’s boxed set, gathering all of her novels, novellas, and short story collections; fourteen additional stories that were uncollected during her lifetime; and a selection of essays, poems, and other writings.

Early Novels and Stories | 1,336 pages
The Troll Garden (short stories) • O Pioneers! • The Song of the Lark • My Ántonia • One of Ours

Later Novels | 988 pages
A Lost Lady • The Professor’s House • Death Comes for the Archbishop • Shadows on the Rock • Lucy Gayheart • Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Stories, Poems, and Other Writings | 1,039 pages
Alexander’s Bridge • My Mortal Enemy • Youth and the Bright Medusa (stories) • Obscure Destinies (stories) • The Old Beauty and Others (stories) • uncollected stories • occasional pieces • critical essays • April Twilights and Other Poems

Each Library of America series volume is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Willa Cather: Early Novels & Stories is kept in print by a gift from Joan Palevsky to the Guardians of American Letters Fund.

Willa Cather: Later Novels is kept in print by a gift from Deborah and Jason McManus through the DJ McManus Fund to the Guardians of American Letters Fund, made in honor of Linda McManus O’Callahan.

Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, & Other Writings is kept in print by a gift from William Rondina to the Guardians of American Letters Fund.