My Mortal Enemy

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  • The
  • Pulitzer
  • Prize–winning
  • author
  • of
  • O
  • Pioneers!
  • presents
  • a
  • moving
  • study
  • of
  • an
  • ambitious
  • woman
  • and
  • her
  • troubled
  • marriage
  • in
  • this
  • 1926
  • novella.When
  • young
  • Myra
  • Driscoll
  • is
  • forced
  • to
  • choose
  • between
  • a
  • large
  • inheritance
  • from
  • her
  • great-uncle
  • and
  • marrying
  • the
  • man
  • she
  • loves,
  • she
  • follows
  • her
  • heart.
  • She
  • and
  • Oswald
  • Henshawe
  • leave
  • their
  • small
  • Illinois
  • town
  • to
  • pursue
  • a
  • future
  • together
  • in
  • New
  • York
  • City.Years
  • later,
  • fifteen-year-old
  • Nellie
  • Birdseye
  • meets
  • Myra
  • Henshawe
  • and
  • her
  • husband.
  • She
  • thinks
  • of
  • Myra
  • as
  • a
  • legend
  • at
  • first.
  • But
  • the
  • more
  • Nellie
  • gets
  • to
  • know
  • the
  • bold,
  • seemingly
  • sophisticated
  • Myra,
  • the
  • more
  • she
  • sees
  • the
  • reality
  • beneath
  • the
  • fantasy—and
  • her
  • romantic
  • notions
  • begin
  • to
  • slip
  • away
  • .
  • .
  • .Known
  • for
  • novels
  • like
  • O
  • Pioneers!,
  • My
  • Ántonia,
  • and
  • The
  • Song
  • of
  • the
  • Lark,
  • Willa
  • Cather
  • wrote
  • predominately
  • about
  • pioneers
  • and
  • the
  • American
  • West.
  • In
  • 1923,
  • she
  • won
  • the
  • Pulitzer
  • Prize
  • for
  • her
  • novel
  • One
  • of Ours.
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