- Fiction, Women pioneers, Women farmers, Farm life
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska country of the 1880s.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Willa Cather
- First published
- January 1, 1994
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, General Books LLC, ICON Classics
- Editions
- 613
- Language
- und, afr, Korean, Hindi
- ISBN
- 9781497417366
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“One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.”
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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