{"product_id":"a-lost-lady-1","title":"A Lost Lady","description":"Marian Forrester dazzles the prairie town of Sweet Water with beauty, grace, and a social brilliance that seems to belong to an older, more confident world. To young Niel Herbert, she is the living emblem of refinement: the wife of the aging Captain Forrester, a railroad man and pioneer whose house stands for generosity, civilisation, and the heroic promise of the American West. But as fortunes decline, loyalties shift, and a harsher commercial age overtakes the old frontier order, Marian's charm becomes both her power and her vulnerability.First published in 1923, A Lost Lady is one of Willa Cather's most concentrated and elegant novels, a portrait of personal disillusionment set against the fading of the pioneer ideal. Through Marian Forrester, Cather created one of her most memorable figures: admired, judged, misunderstood, and never wholly possessed by the moral certainties of those around her. The result is a brief but resonant American classic about memory, class, gender, desire, and the painful transition from romantic frontier mythology to modern materialism. Britannica identifies the novel as a 1923 work depicting the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the aridity of small-town life, while the University of Nebraska Press describes it as a classic Great Plains novel contrasting early Nebraska history with the materialistic world that replaced the frontier.","brand":"SMK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57606783467846,"sku":"9781515435242","price":26.89,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/bd5d5e71e0abee345418afce452afd6267d5a4494b92cdab32f181cb89e547b6.jpg?v=1792102019","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/products\/a-lost-lady-1","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}