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Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, this novel secured Willa Cather a place in the first rank of American writers. Cather called My Ántonia “the best thing I’ve done.” For Oliver Wendell Holmes, My Ántonia had “unfailing charm, perhaps not to be defined; a beautiful tenderness, a vivifying imagination that transforms but does not distort or exaggerate.” H. L. Mencken declared it “one of the best [novels] any American has ever done.”

Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in frontier Nebraska for this, her fourth novel, published in 1918. Old immigrant neighbors inspired many of the characters, particularly the heroine. Ántonia Shimerda is memorable as the warmhearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie. She survives and matures, a pioneer woman made radiant by spirit.

W. T. Benda’s illustrationsfurther ill

Table of Contents
Book I - The Shimerdas
Book II - The Hired Girls
Book III - Lena Lingard
Book IV - The Pioneer Woman's Story
Book V - Cuzak's Boys

My Antonia

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2013
      ISBN13: 9780803245709, 978-0803245709
      ISBN10: 080324570X
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      Book Synopsis

      Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, this novel secured Willa Cather a place in the first rank of American writers. Cather called My Ántonia “the best thing I’ve done.” For Oliver Wendell Holmes, My Ántonia had “unfailing charm, perhaps not to be defined; a beautiful tenderness, a vivifying imagination that transforms but does not distort or exaggerate.” H. L. Mencken declared it “one of the best [novels] any American has ever done.”

      Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in frontier Nebraska for this, her fourth novel, published in 1918. Old immigrant neighbors inspired many of the characters, particularly the heroine. Ántonia Shimerda is memorable as the warmhearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie. She survives and matures, a pioneer woman made radiant by spirit.

      W. T. Benda’s illustrationsfurther ill

      Table of Contents
      Book I - The Shimerdas
      Book II - The Hired Girls
      Book III - Lena Lingard
      Book IV - The Pioneer Woman's Story
      Book V - Cuzak's Boys

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