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My Antonia
β Scribed by Willa Cather
- Publisher
- BiblioLife;Bedford/St. Martin's
- Year
- 1918;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 405 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1945186119
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β¦ Synopsis
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 the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.
Willa Cather's masterful portrait of prairie culture, based on her own life. Against Nebraska's panoramic landscape, Cather recreates the life of an immigrant girl who becomes, in the memories of narrator Jim Burden, the epitome of strong and dignifed womanhood.
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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.
### Amazon.com Review It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's _My Γntonia_ 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