id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4821 The Professor's House - Wikipedia .html text/html 3464 283 69 The Professor's House is a novel by American novelist Willa Cather. The novel initially addresses the Professor's interactions with his new sons-in-law and his family, while continually alluding to the pain they all feel over the death of Tom Outland in the Great War. Outland was not only the Professor's student and friend, but the fiancé of his elder daughter, who is now living off the wealth created by the "Outland vacuum." He is a fifty-two-year-old man of mixed descent "Canadian French on one side, and American farmers on the other".[2] He is described by his wife as growing "better-looking and more intolerant all the time".[3] He is a professor of history at Hamilton University and his book is entitled Spanish Adventures in North America. J. Schroeter presents the most common critical view regarding the structural meaning of the novel in his essay "Willa Cather and The Professor's House": "Book II is the 'turquoise' and Books I and III are the 'dull silver'. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4821.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4821.txt