My Antonia - Softcover

Cather, Willa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420951742 ISBN 13: 9781420951745

Publisher: Digireads.com, 2016

Synopsis

First published in 1918, “My Antonia” is the final book of Willa Cather’s “prairie trilogy” of novels, preceded by “O Pioneers!” and “The Song of the Lark.” It is the classic story of the daughter of the immigrant Bohemian Shimerda family that sets out to farm the untamed prairie land of Nebraska in the late 19th century. The father of the family finds the demands of this new life unbearable. He did not want to leave his homeland where he had a home, a trade, and friends, but does so because his wife believes their children will have a better life in America. The burdens of this new life become too much for the father to bear and he commits suicide before the end of the first winter. Told to us from the perspective of the adoring Jim Burden, an orphan who comes to live at his grandparent’s neighboring farm, “My Antonia” is an enduring American classic rich with both the spirit that brought so many immigrants to this land in search of a better life and of the tragic circumstances that affected so many pioneers. Will Cather viewed “My Antonia” as the best book that she had ever written and countless of her fans have concurred with her opinion ever since its original publication. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

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Review:

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as "My Antonia." H. L. Mencken
The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway. Leon Edel"

-No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Antonia.- -H. L. Mencken
-The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway.- -Leon Edel

"No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Antonia." -H. L. Mencken

"The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway." -Leon Edel

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: Digireads.com
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1420951742
• ISBN 13: 9781420951745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164