Youth and the Bright Medusa

"e;Youth and the Bright Medusa"e; is a 1920 collection of short stories by Willa Cather. The stories include: "e;Coming, Aphrodite!"e;, "e;The Diamond Mine"e;, "e;A Gold Slipper"e;, "e;Scandal"e;, "e;Paul's Case"e;, "e;A Wagner Matinee"e;, "e;The Sculptor's Funeral"e;, and "e;A Death in the Desert"e;. A number of the stories were also published in an earlier collection entitled "e;The Troll Garden"e;. A fantastic collection of assorted writing by a Pulitzer Prize winner highly recommended for short story lovers. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. Other notable works by this author include: "e;O Pioneers!"e; (1913), "e;The Song of the Lark"e; (1915), and "e;My Antonia"e; (1918). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from "e;Willa Cather - Written For The Borzoi, 1920"e; by H. L. Mencken.