My Antonia: Introduction by Jane Smiley by Cather, Willa

My Antonia: Introduction by Jane Smiley (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525562863)

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My Antonia: Introduction by Jane Smiley by Cather, Willa

My Antonia: Introduction by Jane Smiley

$11.00
My Antonia: Introduction by Jane Smiley by Cather, Willa

My Antonia: Introduction by Jane Smiley

$11.00
Format: Paperback
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In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. - This 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa Cather's masterpiece features a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley.

Antonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian immigrants 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 and through hardships both natural and human, surviving everything from poverty to a failed romance--and not only surviving, but triumphing. In the end, Antonia is exactly what Burden says she is: a woman who "had that something which fires the imagination, [a woman who] could stop . . . one's breath for a moment by a look or a gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things."

Author: Willa Cather
ISBN-10: 0525562869
ISBN-13: 9780525562863
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2018
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
By Willa Cather
By Willa Cather
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WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!, My ﾁntonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. In 1922 she won the Pulitzer Prize for one of her lesser-known books, One of Ours. Her other novels include The Song of the Lark, The Professor' s House, My Mortal Enemy, and Lucy Gayheart. She died in 1947 in New York City.

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