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The Professor's House

Alfred A. Knopf, 1925

"Every morning, when the sun's rays first hit the mesa top, while the rest of the world was in shadow, I wakened with the feeling that I had found everything, instead of having lost everything."
Cover of the first edition of The Professor's House

Editions

Serialization

First serialized in nine installments in Collier's from June to August, 1925.

First Edition

Published by Alfred A. Knopf on September 4, 1925.

First English Edition

Published by William Heinemann Ltd. in November 1925.

Autograph Edition

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1938.

Scholarly Edition

Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2002. Historical Essay by James Woodress. Explanatory Notes by James Woodress with Kari A. Ronning. Textual Editing by Frederick M. Link.

Related material available on the Willa Cather Archive

Interviews

Literary Experimentation
Published in the News Letter of the CEA in October 1940 and collected by L. Brent Bohlke in Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters.

Scholarship

"Jazz Age" Places: Modern Regionalism in Willa Cather's The Professor's House
By Kelsey Squire, Cather Studies Volume 9
Willa Cather's Epiphanies and The Professor's House
By Manuel Broncano, Cather Studies Volume 8
Antithetical Icons?: Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and the First World War
By Steven Trout, Cather Studies Volume 7
Looking at Agony: World War I in The Professor's House
By Jennifer Haytock, Cather Studies Volume 6
On the Front and at Home: Wharton, Cather, the Jews, and the First World War
By Susan Meyer, Cather Studies Volume 6
Cather's Literary Choreography: The "Glittering Idea" of Scientific Warfare in The Professor's House
By Wendy K. Perriman, Cather Studies Volume 6
Rebuilding the Outland Engine: A New Source for The Professor's House
By Steven Trout, Cather Studies Volume 6
Willa Cather's Great Emersonian Environmental Quartet
By Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Cather Studies Volume 5
Youth and Age in the Old and New Worlds: Willa Cather and A. E. Housman
By Elsa Nettels, Cather Studies Volume 4
Bringing Outland Inland in The Professor's House: Willa Cather's Domestication of Empire
By Deborah Karush, Cather Studies Volume 4
Epicurus in Hamilton: St. Peter's Contemplative Retirement to Attic Study and Garden in The Professor's House
By Michael W. Price, Cather Studies Volume 4
The Professor's House: Prohibition, Ripe Grapes, and Euripides
By Klaus P. Stich, Cather Studies Volume 4
"Distant and Correct": The Double Life and The Professor's House
By Michael Leddy, Cather Studies Volume 3
Spatial Structures and Forms in The Professor's House
By Ann Moseley, Cather Studies Volume 3
Thefts and Conversation: Cather and Faulkner
By Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Cather Studies Volume 3
The Decline of America: Willa Cather's Spenglerian Vision in The Professor's House
By Matthias Schubnell, Cather Studies Volume 2
This is a Frame-Up: Mother Eve in The Professor's House
By Jean Schwind, Cather Studies Volume 2
Cather's Semitism
By Loretta Wasserman, Cather Studies Volume 2
Insulated Isolation: Willa Cather's Room with a View
By Cynthia K. Briggs, Cather Studies Volume 1
Willa Cather's Mesa Verde Myth
By David Harrell, Cather Studies Volume 1
Dispossession and Redemption in the Novels of Willa Cather
By Ann W. Fisher-Wirth, Cather Studies Volume 1

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