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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Reissue. The first of Cathers renowned prairie novels O Pioneers established a new voice in American literatureturning the stories of ordinary Midwesterners and immigrants into authentic literary charactersO Pioneers was Willa Cathers first great novel and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontierand the transformation of the people who settled it Cathers heroine is Alexandra Bergson who arrives on the windblasted prairie of Hanover Nebraska as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss and Alexandras devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itselfAt once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels O Pioneers is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and in the process become greater than they wereFor more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Englishspeaking world With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as uptodate translations by awardwinning translators. Seller Inventory # DADAX0140187758
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