✍ Scribed by Willa Cather; Gordon Tapper
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&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RMy Ántonia,&&L/I&&R by &&LB&&RWilla Cather&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R&&LI&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R: &&LDIV&&R
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SUMMARY: I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.
Willa Cather's My Antonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with th
### Amazon.com Review It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's _My Ántonia_ by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm o
SUMMARY: I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.
"The best thing I've done is My Antonia, ' recalled Willa Cather. 'I feel I've made a contribution to American letters with that book.' Set against the vast Nebraska prairie, Cather's elegiac novel features one of the most winning heroines in American fiction?Antonia Shimerda?a young woman whose str