The Troll Garden And Selected Stories

Willa Cather published a collection of short stories called The Troll Garden. The stories share a common theme in that they feature characters who desire for the world of beauty and imagination but are continuously attacked by the obscene and vicious outer world. In the short tale "The Sculptor's Funeral," the townspeople of a prairie village are shown in their reactions when a well-known sculptor's body is brought back to be buried there. Today "Paul's Case," the book's concluding story, is reg