5/24/2023 0 Comments My Antonia by Willa CatherCather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting. This novel is considered as Cather's first masterpiece. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. Both the pioneers who first break the prairie sod for farming, as well as of the harsh but fertile land itself, feature in this American novel. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century, as children. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. One of Cather’s earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the tale of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives at the Nebraska frontier as part of a own family of Bohemian emigrants. How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About My Antonia by Willa Cather My Ántonia (/æntni/ an-t-nee-) is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. My Ántonia evokes the Nebraska prairie existence of Willa Cather’s adolescence, and commemorates the spirit and braveness of immigrant pioneers in America.
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