It ends as a great Greek drama with the collapse of the hero and the literal collapse of his great work. Release Date: OctoeBook 30324 Last updated: OctoLanguage: English. Boston has never appeared more glorious than in her descriptions, as one example.The novel starts with great strength but with a forbidding air. The pathless trail Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Alexander has the strength and forbearance of Cather's female characters, shown off most clearly after the great bridge collapses along with Alexander himself.The novel bathes its locations in a glow reminiscent of a lovely Impressionist painting, full of light and luminosity. Alexander has the strength and regret that weave throughout Cather's male characters much as they do through those of her contemporary authors, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dreiser, Anderson, Lewis, and others. Bartley Alexander was the world's leading bridge builder, something that was considered an awesome skill in the early 20th century. His travels provided ample fodder for the dozens of action-adventure novels he would pen over the course of his career, including the thrilling Amazon jungle tale The Pathless Trail. Willa CatherĪlexander's Bridge was Willa Cather's first novel and one of her best. Once established in the region, he spent much of his spare time exploring, including a six-month-long river expedition in Venezuela. Once established in the region, he spent much of his spare time exploring, including a six-month-long river expedition in Venezuela. Friel Synopsis After graduating from Yale, Arthur Friel served as a South American correspondent for the Associated Press. "Englishmen would wear the round helmets of pith." "Mercadores? Traders?" suggested the woman, hopefully running an eye again over the bundles.Alexander's Bridge - Willa. 256531 in Fiction & Literature The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. "Notre-Americano," asserted a man, nodding toward the broad hats. "Ingles?" hazarded a woman, speaking through the stem of the black pipe clutched in her filed teeth. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future. The women let their eyes rove over the boxes and bundles reposing in the mud beside the three. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. The copper-faced men peered at the rifles hanging in the right hands of the newcomers, their knee boots, khaki clothing, and wide hats. They eyed the uncompromising back of the tall one, the easy lounge of the red one, the thoughtful attitude of the light one. Behind them, at a respectful distance, a number of swarthy individuals of both sexes in nondescript garments smoked and stared at the trio with the interest always accorded strangers by the dwellers of the Out Places. The blond watched it with the wistfulness of one who sees the last sign of his own world fade out. The red man squinted quizzically at the smoke feather as if it mattered little to him where he was. His two mates-one stocky, red faced and red headed the other slender, bronzed and blond-betrayed their thoughts in their blue eyes. The tallest, lean bodied but broad shouldered, black of hair and gray of eye, held himself in soldierly fashion and gazed unmoved. Three men of widely different types they were, yet all cradled in the same far-off northern land. Three men stood ankle deep in mud on the shore of a jungle river, silently watching a ribbon of smoke drift and dissolve above the somber mass of trees to the northwest.
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