The Troll Garden
by Willa Cather
In the stories that make up his first book, The Trolls' Garden, Willa Cather evokes devastated, romantic dreams that haunt his characters. Artists are divided between stubborn sentimentalists, greedy beauties, and the devil-swallowed abyss, the need to confess and keep their private aspirations secret. In connection with a soul-destroying hope, their lives reflect both impoverished materialism and the deadly idealism of the country of the Plains, fashionable East and London at the turn of the century.
