Youth and the Bright Medusa

&quote;Youth and the Bright Medusa&quote; is a 1920 collection of short stories by Willa Cather. The stories include: &quote;Coming, Aphrodite!&quote;, &quote;The Diamond Mine&quote;, &quote;A Gold Slipper&quote;, &quote;Scandal&quote;, &quote;Paul's Case&quote;, &quote;A Wagner Matinee&quote;, &quote;The Sculptor's Funeral&quote;, and &quote;A Death in the Desert&quote;. A number of the stories were also published in an earlier collection entitled &quote;The Troll Garden&quote;. A fantastic collection of assorted writing by a Pulitzer Prize winner highly recommended for short story lovers. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. Other notable works by this author include: &quote;O Pioneers!&quote; (1913), &quote;The Song of the Lark&quote; (1915), and &quote;My Antonia&quote; (1918). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from &quote;Willa Cather - Written For The Borzoi, 1920&quote; by H. L. Mencken.