The Professor's House

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In this masterly study in introspection, Willa Cather tells the story of a scholarly professor in a Middle Western university, passing through the critical, uneasy period between middle age and old age. Reluctant to move into a new, more comfortable house, he remains in the old room he has been used to working in, despite the protestations of his wife and daughters. The reader finds him a man in his middle fifties at the zenith of his intellectual powers--yet now suffering the dislocations of a life that has changed too quickly, too harshly.