Youth and the Bright Medusa

Youth and the Bright Medusa
First edition book cover
AuthorWilla Cather
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story collection
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1920
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint

Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920.[1] Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden.

Contents

This collection contains the following stories:[2]

Publication

The book was the first book Cather published with Alfred A. Knopf.[3] She was unhappy with her publisher Houghton Mifflin and had been interested in Knopf since seeing their edition of Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson.[3] Cather liked the looks of their books and how they supported their authors with well-designed advertisements.[3] Cather was still under contract with Houghton Mifflin for her novels so Knopf offered to put out a selection of her short stories.[3]

References

  1. ^ "And Death Comes for Willa Cather, Famous Author". Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. 25 April 1947.
  2. ^ Willa Cather. Youth and the Bright Medusa – via Project Gutenberg.
  3. ^ a b c d Claridge, Laura (2016). The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire (First ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 61–62. ISBN 9780374114251. OCLC 908176194.