Obscure Destinies Explained

Obscure Destinies
Author:	Willa Cather
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Short story collection
Publisher:	Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date:	1932
Media Type:	Print

Obscure Destinies is a collection of three short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932.^[1] Each story deals with the death of a central character and asks how the ordinary lives of these characters can be valued and how "beauty was found or created in seemingly ordinary circumstances".^[2]

Contents

This collection contains the following stories:^[3]

• "Neighbour Rosicky"
• "Old Mrs. Harris"
• "Two Friends"

Notes and References

1. News: And Death Comes for Willa Cather, Famous Author. Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. 25 April 1947.
2. Stout, Janis P. Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2000. p. 256.
3. Project Gutenberg, table of contents, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201131h.html