Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather Fiction Classics Romance Literary

<p><strong><em>Alexander stood six feet and more in the archway glowing with strength and cordiality and rugged good looks.</em></strong><em> There were other bridge-builders in the world certainly -- but it was always Alexander's picture that the Sunday Supplement men wanted because he looked as a tamer of rivers ought to look. Under his tumbled sandy hair his head seemed as hard and powerful as a catapult and his shoulders looked strong enough in themselves to support a span of any one of his ten great bridges that cut the air above as many rivers.</em></p><p>At the pinnacle of his career Bartley Alexander stands proudly in the public eye. Yet for those who know him well a certain mystery lingers about him -- some strange aspect of his past well hidden from view . . . something perhaps that might even shake the mightiest of engineering triumphs.</p><p>Willa Cather a journalist editor and traveler born in 1876 established her place in the literary world with the publication in 1912 of <em>Alexander's Bridge</em> her first novel. Her later masterpieces included <em>My Antonia</em> and <em>Death Comes for the Archbishop.</em></p>