My Mortal Enemy

Myra Driscoll had it all — dresses jewels a riding horse and a Steinway piano — until she met and fell in love with Oswald Henshawe a man her uncle John Driscoll hated. Despite the threat of disinheritance by Driscoll Myra married Oswald. Nellie Birdseye Myra’s niece narrates the poignant journey through a failing marriage and a woman’s painful struggle with the internal conflict of its blame. This unforgettable novella written in 1926 by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Willa Cather offers a tragic depiction of the marriage paradox: how to reconcile youth’s romantic exuberance with growing disillusionment bitterness and regret.