Not Under Forty

For Willa Cather, “the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts.” The whole legacy of Western civilization stood on the far side of World War I, and in the spiritually impoverished present she looked back to that.
To that she directed readers of these essays, declaring that anyone under forty years old would not be interested in them. But she was wrong. . .|Goodreads.com|