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Alexander's Bridge

Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912

" 'Now I know that no one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.' "
Cover of first edition of Alexander's Bridge

Editions

Serialization

First serialized in three installments in McClure's Magazine from February to April, 1912, with the title Alexander's Masquerade

First Edition

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co. on April 20, 1912.

First English Edition

Published by J. Miles & Co. for William Heinemann in August 1912.

1922 Edition

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1922 with new Preface written by Cather.

Scholarly Edition

Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2007. Historical Essay and Explanatory Notes by Tom Quirk; Textual Essay and Editing by Frederick M. Link

Related material available on the Willa Cather Archive

Interviews

Explaining Her Novel: Alexander's Bridge Has Nothing to Do with Whist

Published in New York Sun on May 25, 1912 and collected by L. Brent Bohlke in Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters.

Scholarship

Alexander's Bridge: The "Other" First Novel

By Loretta Wasserman, Cather Studies Volume 4

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