There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Life lessons Learning Adversity

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Author

Willa Cather

Source

The Song of the Lark

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 4, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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Cather, Willa. The Professor's House. Alfred A. Knopf, 1925, bk. 1, ch. 8.

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Language
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Time
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Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 51.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 51.