Alexander's Bridge"A bridge builder, teetering between youth and maturity, between a mistress in London and a wife in Boston, loses his balance when his greatest structure collapses."-New York Times Book Review |
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Contents
II | 4 |
IV | 22 |
V | 32 |
VI | 46 |
VII | 58 |
VIII | 74 |
IX | 82 |
X | 96 |
XII | 128 |
XIII | 136 |
XIV | 196 |
XV | 200 |
XVI | 246 |
XVII | 284 |
XVIII | 286 |
XIX | 302 |
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| Title | Alexander's Bridge The Willa Cather scholarly edition Works. 1992 |
| Author | Willa Cather |
| Editor | Frederick M. Link |
| Contributor | Tom Quirk |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | U of Nebraska Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0803211325, 9780803211322 |
| Length | 303 pages |
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