Death Comes for the Archbishop (häftad, eng)

''One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico. He had lost his way''Death Comes for the Archbishop is the story of two missionary priests, travelling through the American Southwest in the aftermath of the Mexican American wars.

Father Jean-Marie Latour and Joseph Vaillant spread Catholic faith and religious practices, convert and gather new souls, and discipline wayward priests. Their missionary journey takes them towards a greater understanding of the place and people they serve.Cather wrote at length about the layers within her texts and the influences and the details she incorporated.

This edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop edited by Catherine Morley highlights and addresses these details: Cather''s engagement with fine art, her palimpsestic layering of texts, and her movement through different languages. Morley also places Cather among her American modernist peers, while reflecting upon the thematic details of the text, and offering insights into Cather''s personal life and her life as a writer.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.

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Format	Häftad
Omfång	288 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Oxford University Press
Utgivningsdatum	2026-02-12
ISBN	9780192849250