The Song of the Lark

By Willa Cather

This is a Willa Cather book, through and through. I loved reading it, even if she found later on that there may have been too many details in parts of it. It tells the growing-up story of Thea Kronborg and all the people who helped her get to become a great and successful artist.

In the introduction to the second edition of the book, Willa Cather writes that she realized many people think the name of the novel refer to Thea, since she's a singer. However, she says it is named after a picture Thea admired, by the French painter Jules Adolph Breton. [434 pp.]

Link to book.