The title comes from a painting of the same name, by Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton. There is so much to this novel in terms of depth and scope, that I will only try to give a flavour of it, it’s a truly great story, and a quite ambitious work, beautifully written as one would expect, memorable and engaging. There is only one big thing - desire.”Īt almost 600 pages it is certainly one of Cather’s longer novels, if not the longest, and it has a scope to match. “The world is little, people are little, human life is little. First published in 1915 – it was Cather’s third novel and is considered to be the second novel in her Prairie Trilogy. Having promised myself that I would read more Willa Cather novels this year, it was pretty certain that TheSong of the Lark would be one of the novels I would finally get around to.
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