- Literature, Frontier and pioneer life, Czech Americans, Married women
My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the last novel in the Prairie trilogy, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.My Antonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Antonia.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Willa Cather
- First published
- August 1, 2005
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Wheeler Pub., HarperCollins Publishers, The Reader's Digest Association
- Editions
- 832
- Language
- urd, German, heb, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781600966606
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“I FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me and interminable journey the great midland plain of North America.”
Willa Siebert Cather was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather
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