O Pioneers!
By Willa Cather
By Willa Cather
By Willa Cather
By Willa Cather
By Willa Cather
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
By Willa Cather
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
By Willa Cather
By Willa Cather
Part of Vintage Classics
Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
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$10.00
Dec 01, 1992 | ISBN 9780679743620
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$6.95
Mar 01, 1989 | ISBN 9780553213584
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$28.00
Sep 06, 2011 | ISBN 9780307700919
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Jun 24, 2008 | ISBN 9780553905212
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Praise
The land belongs to the future… that’s the way it seems to me….I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother’s children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while."
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather’s first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier — and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather’s heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra’s devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.
At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were.
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