 First edition book cover | |
| Author | Willa Cather |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short story collection |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1920 |
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Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920. [1] Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden .
This collection contains the following stories: [2]
The book was the first book Cather published with Alfred A. Knopf. [3] 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. [3] Cather liked the looks of their books and how they supported their authors with well-designed advertisements. [3] Cather was still under contract with Houghton Mifflin for her novels so Knopf offered to put out a selection of her short stories. [3]
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