A Reader's Companion to the Fiction of Willa Cather

"[T]he Companion is impressive both for the knowledge of literature, art, and music Cather possessed, apparent in her many allusions, and for the detail of March's effort. The Companion makes one want to reread Cather's works more closely, or read those not yet read. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduates students, and researchers." - Choice
"Thousands of entries contained in this delightful literary reference work range from A (a French town visited by Claude Wheeler and David Gerhardt in One of Ours) to Zuni (the Sothwestern Indian pueblo and site of a tale of mission revolt told in Death Comes for the Archbishop)...the Companion feels somewhat more like a lively dialogue, a complex conversation involving innumerable interconnections between Cather's short stories and novels and the continuing curiosities and concerns of her committed readership, than an alphabetically ordered dictionary." - Western American Literature
"Literary archaeologists of the future may be able to reconstruct the outlines and many of the details of Cather's fiction just from this comprehensive and readable guide. This volume will deservedly become a standard reference. March assumed readers would move from the fiction to his handbook; the editors believe, rightly, that this companion will be read on its own. It serves admirably to illuminate the range of Cather's allusions, to increase the reader's understanding of the cultures of which she writes, and to bring the reader back to the text with a deeper understanding." - Great Plains Quarterly