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Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges undergoing a mid-life crisis. Although married to Winifred, Bartley resumes his acquaintance with a former lover, Hilda Burgoyne, in London. The affair gnaws at Bartley's sense of propriety and... Read Full Overview

Willa Sibert Cather December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947 3]) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My ntonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer... Read Full Overview

Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather's first novel, is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections.

Willa Cather's first published novel, set in Boston, London, and Paris, is the story of a man unable to resolve the contradictions in his own nature. The central figures are Bartley Alexander, a world-famous engineer; his wife; Winifred, a Boston society matron; and his former... Read Full Overview

Excerpt from Alexander's Bridge

The characteristic themes of Cather's mature work are already present in her debut novella, an evocation of a tragic love triangle. Bartley Alexander, renowned engineer of bridges, is a man with a past who "looked as a tamer of rivers ought to look." Discovered by his mentor... Read Full Overview

The classic by Willa Cather.

First published in 1912, "Alexander's Bridge" is American author Willa Cather's first novel. The story centers around Bartley Alexander, a famous engineer and bridge builder who is going through a mid-life crisis. Despite having a wife named Winifred, Bartley rekindles an old... Read Full Overview

Willa Cather's debut novel, telling the alluring tale of Bartley Alexander, an engineer famous throughout the world for the construction of bridges. Reaching midlife, Alexander grows tired of his passionless marriage and becomes reacquainted with a former lover in London. Torn... Read Full Overview

Willa Cather's first published novel, set in Boston, London, and Paris, is the story of a man unable to resolve the contradictions in his own nature. The central figures are Bartley Alexander, a world-famous engineer; his wife; Winifred, a Boston society matron; and his former... Read Full Overview

Engineer Bartley Alexander appears to have a happy life in Boston with a successful career and a beautiful wife. He has been commissioned to design the Moorlock Bridge in Canada, the most important project of his career. With the onset of middle age, however, he grows increasingly... Read Full Overview

Bartley Alexander, an engineer famous for the audacious structure of his North American bridges, is at the height of his reputation. He has a distinguished and beautiful wife and an enviable Boston home. Then, on a trip to London, he has a chance encounter with an Irish actress... Read Full Overview

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had lived there as a student, but for twenty years and more, since he had been Professor... Read Full Overview

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had lived there as a student, but for twenty years and more, since he had been Professor... Read Full Overview