The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing-desire.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Topic

Desire

Speaker

Wunsch

Author

Willa Cather

Source

The Song of the Lark

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 1, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 1, ch. 9.

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