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My Antonia

Introduction by Jane Smiley

By Willa Cather

By Willa Cather

By Willa Cather

By Willa Cather

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Mar 06, 2018 | ISBN 9780525562863

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Mar 15, 1994 | ISBN 9780679741879

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    About My Antonia

    This 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa Cather’s masterpiece a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Jane Smiley.

    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. Ántonia 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 Ántonia from farm to town as she survives hardships both natural and human, from poverty to a failed romance—and not only survives, but triumphs.

    About My Antonia

    In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country.

    Antonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian immigrants struggling with the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and disappointed admirer, we follow Antonia from farm to town and through hardships both natural and human, surviving everything from poverty to a failed romance–and not only surviving, but triumphing. In the end, Antonia is exactly what Burden says she is: a woman who “had that something which fires the imagination, [a woman who] could stop . . . one’s breath for a moment by a look or a gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things.”

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    About Willa Cather

    WILLA CATHER was born in Virginia in 1873, and was about nine years old when her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and… More about Willa Cather

    About Willa Cather

    WILLA CATHER was born in Virginia in 1873, and was about nine years old when her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and… More about Willa Cather

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $10.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 06, 2018 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780525562863

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $10.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 15, 1994 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679741879

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    “No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.” –H. L. Mencken

    “The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway.” –Leon Edel

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