There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Life lessons Learning Adversity

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Author

Willa Cather

Source

The Song of the Lark

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 4, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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Citation

Cather, Willa. The Professor's House. Alfred A. Knopf, 1925, bk. 1, ch. 8.

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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The Egoist, 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by Seamus Deane. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 5.

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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

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Ernest Shackleton
Medium
Personal journal
Language
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Time
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Truth is the first casualty in war.

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Ethel Snowden
Source
Women and War
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Snowden, Ethel. "Women and War." Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association. 1915.