My Antonia: Introduction by Jane Smiley

Author(s): Willa Cather

Fiction.

In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose calm, undemonstrative strength and robust high spirits make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. ntonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian immigrant parents struggling with the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and disappointed admirer, we follow ntonia from farm to town as she survives hardships both natural and human, from poverty to a failed romance-and not only survives, but triumphs.


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"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

WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!, My ntonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.

General Fields

  • : 9780525562870
  • : Penguin Putnam Inc
  • : Dutton / Signet
  • : March 2018
  • : United States
  • : March 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Willa Cather
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : FIC
  • : 304