"A great romantic novel, written with striking brilliancy and power, in which one sees emerge a new country and a new people.... Throughout the story one has the sense of great spaces; of the soil dominating everything, even the human drama that takes place upon it; renewing itself while the generations come and pass away."—McClure's Magazine.
"The book is big in its conception and strikes many great live topics of the day—the feminist movement and the back-to-the-soil doctrines being two of the most conspicuous. There is a spirit of the open spaces about this story—a bigness that suggests that Miss Cather has taken more than her title from Whitman's hymn to progress, 'Pioneers, O Pioneers.'"—San Francisco Chronicle.
By ELIA W. PEATTIE
THE PRECIPICE
"A frank and fearless study of the New Womanhood which we now see all around us ... done upon a broad canvas."—The Bookman.
"No stronger novel pleading the cause of woman has yet been written than 'The Precipice.'"—Los Angeles Times.
"The author knows life and human nature thoroughly, and she has written out of ripened perceptions and a full heart ... a book which men and women alike will be better for reading, of which any true hearted author might be proud."—Chicago Record Herald.
"So absolutely true to life that it is hard to consider it fiction."—Boston Post.