Sapphira and the Slave Girl (Vintage Classics) (English Edition)

Willa Cather

Vintage

2011

305 páginas

10h 10m

ISBN-13: 9780307805256

Português Brasileiro

In her final novel, Willa Cather departed from her usual Great Plains settings to plumb the turbulent relationships between slaves and their owners in the antebellum South. Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in Virginia just before the Civil War. Sapphira is a slave owner who feels she has come down in the world and channels her resentments into jealousy of her beautiful mulatto slave, Nancy. Sapphiras daughter Rachel, an abolitionist, opposes her mothers increasingly shocking attempts to persecute Nancy. The struggles of these three strong-willed women provide rich material for Cathers narrative art and psychological insight. BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.