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My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A reissue of Willa Cather's best-loved novel and a beautiful portrayal of frontier life in Nebraska now with a new introduction by travel writer Sara Wheeler When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant ntonia ...Show more
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Great Plains Trilogy Ser.
Set in rural Nebraska, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is both the intricate story of a powerful friendship and a brilliant portrayal of the lives of rural pioneers in the late-nineteenth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foil ...Show more
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Many academics consider My Antonia to be her first masterpiece, and it follows the story of a young orphan named Jim Burden who is transferred from Virginia to Nebraska to live with his grandparents on their farm. He befriends Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian girl who is going through her own problems as sh ...Show more
My Ántonia (Word Cloud Classics) by Willa Cather
Category: Classic | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Travel to the Old West with Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. Willa Cather's novels brought the life of American settlers on the Great Plains to the forefront of the nation's consciousness during a time when the lands west of the Mississippi were undergoing rapid transformation. My ntonia, considered ...Show more
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious.' Willa Cather's second novel, O Pioneers! (1913) tells the story of Alexandra Bergson and her determina ...Show more
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it To the anger of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, Nebraska following the death of their father. As ...Show more
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Category: Fiction
This novel is set at the turn of the twentieth century. When their father dies young, exhausted by the failure of his attempts at agriculture, it is left to the visionary Alexandra to guide the family to prosperity and safeguard the fortune of her brothers. Strong-willed and fiercely independent, she su ...Show more
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Great Plains Trilogy Ser.
O Pioneers by Willa CatherThe first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, f ...Show more
O Pioneers! (Penguin pocket classics) by Willa Cather
Category: Classic | Series: Pocket Penguins
'She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun...' A rapturous work of savage beauty, Willa Cather's 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie i ...Show more
One of Ours by WILLA CATHER
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Books on Literature and Drama Ser.
In Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, we meet Claude Wheeler, a young Nebraskan yearning to escape the life that has been preordained for him. Claude is dissatisfied with farming, alienated from his parents, distant from his wife, and searching for something to believe in. When the country ent ...Show more
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Willa Cather explores the destiny of a boy whose yearnings impel him from Nebraska to a frontier bloodier and more distant than the one settled by his ancestors, from a farm to the trenches of World War I.