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Youth and the Bright Medusa

FieldValue
nameYouth and the Bright Medusa
authorWilla Cather
imageYouthAndTheBrightMedusa.jpg
captionFirst edition book cover
countryUnited States
languageEnglish
genreShort story collection
publisherAlfred A. Knopf
release_date1920
media_typePrint

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.

Contents

This collection contains the following stories:

  • "Coming, Aphrodite!" "Coming, Eden Bower!"
  • "The Diamond Mine"
  • "A Gold Slipper"
  • "Scandal"
  • "Paul's Case"
  • "A Wagner Matinee"
  • "The Sculptor's Funeral"
  • "A Death in the Desert"

Publication

The book was the first book Cather published with Alfred A. Knopf. 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. Cather liked the looks of their books and how they supported their authors with well-designed advertisements. Cather was still under contract with Houghton Mifflin for her novels so Knopf offered to put out a selection of her short stories.

References

References

  1. (25 April 1947). "And Death Comes for Willa Cather, Famous Author". [[Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph]].
  2. Willa Cather. "Youth and the Bright Medusa".
  3. Claridge, Laura. (2016). "The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire". Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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