by Willa Cather · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784874445
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«My Ántonia» is the classic novel by Willa Cather, published by Penguin Random House (Vintage Classics) in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Jim Burden, an orphan who settles on the Nebraska prairies, befriends Ántonia Shimerda, daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family. Cather portrays their shared childhood, the hard farm work, and how poverty separates their fates, in a tribute to American pioneers and to a landscape as beautiful as it is unforgiving.
It is the third and final installment of the Great Plains trilogy, also comprising O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. A 1918 work, 2019 edition with an introduction by Sara Wheeler.
Readers of American classics and stories about pioneers and immigration, as well as book clubs.
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
