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My Antonia

Cather, Willa, 1873-19472018
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In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose calm, undemonstrative strength and robust high spirits make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. Antonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian immigrant parents struggling with the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and disappointed admirer, we follow Antonia from farm to town as she survives hardships both natural and human, from poverty to a failed romance - and not only survives, but triumphs.
Main title:
My Antonia / Willa Cather ; introduction by Jane Smiley.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2018.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780241338322 (pbk)9780241338339 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
813.5'2
LC class:
PS3505.A87A6
Language:
English
BRN:
346196
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