"I don't think it's a stretch to regard The Professor's House as not only Cather's best work but as one of the five great novels in American literature." --Keith Hale, author of Rupert Brooke of Rugby

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"I sometimes think The Professor's House is Cather's masterpiece. It is almost perfectly constructed, peculiarly moving, and completely original." -- A.S. Byatt, The Guardian

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The Professor's House, combining as it does a profound study of individual consciousness with a tragic meditation on the nature of (especially American) civilization, deserves to be seen as one of the greatest and most relevant of the novels of the old century." -- Donald Lyons, The New Centerion