My Ántonia (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

ISBN: 195724075X

Author: Cather, Willa

Condition: New

My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America. When ten-year-old orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska, he meets and is instantly smitten by Ántonia Shimerda, the spirited eldest daughter of Bohemian immigrants. Through adventures, poverty, treachery, and tragedy the two form an enduring bond. Years later, Jim visits Ántonia and her husband, Anton Cuzak, on their farm in Nebraska and later offers a vivid, soulful account of their youth together.Widely recognized as Willa Cathers greatest novel and an outstanding work of American literature, My Ántonia, is a hauntingly evocative tribute to the quiet heroism of pioneers whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest. It is the final book of her Great Plains trilogy, which includes O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. This Warbler Classics edition includes the original 1918 introduction by Cather and a detailed biographical timeline.Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944. By the time of her death in 1947 she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.No romantic novel ever written in Americais one half so beautiful as My Ántonia. -H. L. MenckenFor the beauty of the writingmy go-to is My Ántonia. -Rebecca TraisterA magnificent, still too obscure novel. -Robert Christgau