In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high...
My Antonia
My Ántonia
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This novel is considered as Cather's first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting.
'The best thing I've done is My Antonia,' recalled Willa Cather.
The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.
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My Ántonia (first published 1918) is considered the greatest novel by American writer Willa Cather.
My Antonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works.
This novel is considered Cather's first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds.
My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia.
My Antonia.Willa Cather.After the death of his parents, Jim is sent to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska plains.
My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.
My Ántonia By Willa Cather My Ántonia (first published 1918) is considered the greatest novel by American writer Willa Cather.
Described on publication as 'one of the best [novels] that any American has ever done', My Antonia paradoxically took Cather out of the rank of provincial novelists as the same time that it celebrated the provinces, and mythologized a ...
A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists.