My Ántonia (Collins Classics)

by Willa Cather

Overview

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My Antonia is Willa Cather’s masterpiece about 19th-century Nebraskan pioneers.

My Antonia depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows.

Jim Burden recounts his memories of Antonia Shimerda, whose family settle in Nebraska from Bohemia. Together they share childhoods spent in a new world. Jim leaves the prairie for college and a career in the east, while Antonia devotes herself to her large family and productive farm. Her story is that of the land itself, a moving portrait of endurance and strength.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008322786
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	09/19/2019
Series:	Collins Classics
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishers
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	928 KB

About the Author

Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American author known for her works on frontier life, including the “prairie trilogy”, which includes O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Antonia. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

Date of Birth:

December 7, 1873

Date of Death:

April 27, 1947

Place of Birth:

Winchester, Virginia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., University of Nebraska, 1895

Editorial Reviews

‘A clear-eyed salute to the resilience of the human spirit and the innate hardiness of the immigrants who came across the ocean to start afresh in the golden west’ Guardian

‘Because of Willa Cather’s intensity of observation, My Ántonia remains a revelation’ Paris Review

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