The Professor’s House

Willa Cather

• Novel
• Book language: English
• 157 pages

The Professor’s House is Willa Cather’s 1925 novel about Godfrey St. Peter, a midwestern history professor who feels displaced when his family moves to a new home. Shifting between present life and memories of his gifted student Tom Outland, it meditates on change, loss, and intellectual ideals. Listen for its quiet, precise prose and moving portrait of a scholar’s inner life.

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