Death Comes for the Archbishop Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author) |
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ISBN: 6057566521 ISBN-13: 9786057566522 Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1927 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Christian - Western |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 1150 |
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.73 lbs) 260 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 10027 Reading Level: 7.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Death Comes for the Archbishop is the story, not of death, but of life, for Miss Cather's Archbishop Latour died of having lived. She is concerned, not with any climactic moment in a career, but with the whole broad view of the career. There is no climax, short of the gentle end. It was early when the Spanish Cardinal and his guests sat down to dinner. The sun was still good for an hour of supreme splendour, and across the shining folds of country the low profile of the city barely fretted the skyline--indistinct except for the dome of St. Peter's, bluish grey like the flattened top of a great balloon, just a flash of copper light on its soft metallic surface. The Cardinal had an eccentric preference for beginning his dinner at this time in the late afternoon, when the vehemence of the sun suggested motion. The light was full of action and had a peculiar quality of climax--of splendid finish. It was both intense and soft, with a ruddiness as of much-multiplied candlelight, an aura of red in its flames. It bored into the ilex trees, illuminating their mahogany trunks and blurring their dark foliage; it warmed the bright green of the orange trees and the rose of the oleander blooms to gold; sent congested spiral patterns quivering over the damask and plate and crystal. The churchmen kept their rectangular clerical caps on their heads to protect them from the sun. The three Cardinals wore black cassocks with crimson pipings and crimson buttons, the Bishop a long black coat over his violet vest. |