One of Cather's earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants.
Reproduction of the original: My Antonia by Willa Cather
Splendid early novel (1918) evokes the Nebraska prairie life of the author's childhood, and touchingly commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers who settled the land.
The story of a Bohemian girl in a Nebraska town depicts life in a desolate area and the adaptation of immigrants to American life
The novel starkly represents the lives of those who cultivated the land and society of the American West, and was the third and final book of Cathers prairie trilogy which also included the novels O Pioneers! and The Song of the ...
O Pioneers!, a novel by American writer Willa Cather, the first one of her Great Plains trilogy that also contains The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Antonia (1918). The story is set at the turn of the 20th century.
This book is a straightforward narrative, written in limpid prose of uncanny descriptive accuracy, about the struggles endured by a family of immigrant pioneers and the small community that surrounds them on the unsettled Nebraska plains.
In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, two French Jesuit priests travel to the American Southwest to establish a new Roman Catholic diocese. The novel follows the priests adventures, friendship, and spiritual journey.
A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels.