Uncle Valentine and Other StoriesThe seven stories in this volume were written during the ascending and perhaps most triumphant years of Willa Cather's career, the period during which she published nine books, including My ntonia, A Lost Lady, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. For the most part ironic in tone, these stories are, as Bernice Slote observes, bound by the geometrics of urban lifestreets and offices, workers and firms, the business world of New York and Pittsburgh, the