![]() ![]() Cathers work, too, had met with positive reviews and favorable sales. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting.This special 100th Anniversary edition includes the full 1918 original version of the Willa Cathers book and provides other valuable features including a commented introduction, helpful bibliography, authors biography, notes, references, context and analysis. Cather had published four novels Alexanders Bridge (1912), O Pioneers (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918)and a collection of short stories, Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920), since April Twilights and The Troll Garden. This novel is considered Cathers 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, ntonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. ![]() Willa Cather My Antonia 100th Anniversary Edition: Complete and Unabridged 1918 version with introduction, context, biography and analysisMy ntonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. ![]()
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