The Troll Garden and the Selected Stories

The Troll Garden is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1905. This collection contains the following seven stories:



"Flavia and Her Artists"

"The Sculptor's Funeral"

"A Death in the Desert"

"The Garden Lodge"

"The Marriage of Phaedra"

"A Wagner Matinee"

"Paul's Case.



Four of these stories; The Sculptor's Funeral," "A Death in the Desert," "A Wagner Matinee," and "Paul's Case"—were revised and included in Cather's next collection of short fiction Youth and the Bright Medusa, published in 1920.



Wilella Sibert Cather (1873 1947) is an eminent author from the United States. She is perhaps best known for her depictions of U.S. life in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.