Indians, Mexicans and Spanish settlers of the American southwest in the mid-1800s.ĭeath Comes for the Archbishop seems out of place not just in its timesīut in the overall sweep of modern literature. Life of a couple of good-natured French priests, missionaries really, among the Even harder hitting works were to come as the so-called Roaring decade was replaced by the Dirty Thirties.Īnd in the midst of this, Willa Cather was penning a meandering meditation on the Years earlier, followed by Hemingway's The Sun Also Risesand Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry.Īlong with other excitingly modern, jaded novels of social criticism Gatsby and Dreiser's An American Tragedy had been published just two Surprising if you read it alongside other American literature that came out around On several lists as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century-which may be Death Comes for the Archbishop is often considered
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