My Antonia (Great Plains Trilogy) - Softcover

Cather, Willa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451466268 ISBN 13: 9780451466266

Publisher: Signet Book, 2014

Synopsis

Beloved American novelist Willa Cather's nostalgic classic about life on the Midwest prairie.

Emigrating from Bohemia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, with her family, Ántonia discovers no white-framed farmhouse or snug barn. Instead, the cultured Shimerda family finds itself huddled in a primitive sod house buffeted by the ceaselessly blowing winds on the Midwest prairie. For her childhood friend Jim Burden, Ántonia comes to embody the elemental spirit of this frontier. Working alongside men, she survives without compromising the rich, deep power of her nature. And Willa Cather's lush descriptions of the rolling Nebraska grasslands interweave with the blossoming of a woman in the early days of the twentieth century in a novel that is an epic chronicle of America's past. The novel Cather herself considered her best, My Ántonia is one of those rare, highly prized works of great literature that not only enriches its readers but immerses them in a tale superbly told.

With an Introduction by Marilyn Sides
and an Afterword by Terese Svoboda

About this title

Review:

"No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia. It is the finest thing of its sort ever done in America."--H. L. Mencken

"Can one name another American novel whose emotional quality is so true, so warm, so human as that of My Ántonia."--Clifton Fadiman

"To reread Cather is to rediscover an arresting chapter in the national past."--Los Angeles Times

"The time will come when she'll be ranked above Hemingway."--Leon Edel

Book Description:

The classic American novel, published for the first time in The Everyman Library hardback edition

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet Book
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0451466268
• ISBN 13: 9780451466266
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288