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| Author | Willa Cather |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf (New York) |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 166 |
| OCLC | 280656 |
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This collection contains the following stories: [2]
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Five Stories is a collection of stories, published in 1956 by the Estate of Willa Cather, after the author's death. Several of these stories had been previously published in other collections.
The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1909) is a highly critical account of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and the early history of the Christian Science church in 19th-century New England. Largely ghostwritten by the novelist Willa Cather, it was published as a book in November 1909 in New York by Doubleday, Page & Company. The original byline was that of a journalist, Georgine Milmine, but it later emerged that Cather was the principal author.
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