My Antonia

Cather, Willa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614271623 ISBN 13: 9781614271628

Publisher: Martino Fine Books, 2011

2011 Reprint of 1918 Edition. "My Ántonia" was enthusiastically received in 1918 when it was first published. It was considered a masterpiece and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. Today it is considered her first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life in her fiction and for making it personally engaging for the reader. It also served to promote regional American literature as an important part of mainstream literature. While interpretations vary, "My Ántonia" is clearly an elegy to those families who built new lives west of the Mississippi River and highlights the role of women pioneers in particular. Cather also makes a number of comments concerning her views on women's rights and some interpreters have suggested the use of disguised sexual metaphors in the text. It remains a classic text in American literature.

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

Book Description:

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