My Antonia (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) - Hardcover

Cather, Willa; Woodress, James Leslie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803214685 ISBN 13: 9780803214682

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Synopsis

Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, My Àntonia secured Willa Cather's place in the first rank of American writers. Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in frontier Nebraska for her fourth novel, published in 1918. Ántonia Shimerda is memorable as the warm-hearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie. She survives and matures, a pioneer woman made radiant by spirit.This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of My Ántonia is edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association and it presents the full range of biographical, historical, and textual information on the novel. The selection of W. T. Benda's illustrations and the historical photography and maps also illuminate the fiction of a writer who drew so extensively on actual experience.

About this title

Review:

"The arrival of a definitive text . . . does timely service. Handsomely printed, and replete with textual notes and James Woodress's assiduous history of the novel's composition and reception, it gives My Ántonia due scholarly format."--Review of English Studies--Review of English Studies

"A distilled, high-level course in Cather."--Western American Literature--Western American Literature

Book Description:

In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803214685
• ISBN 13: 9780803214682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 584
• Editor: Ronning Kari