My Antonia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781907523694)

'My Antonia' was first published in 1918. It was Willa Cather's fourth novel and her first recognized masterwork. The book follows the parallel stories of Antonia Shimerdas, a Bohemian immigrant, and the orphan Jim Burden, viewing their lives from childhood to middle age, and allowing the author to reveal the glories and hardship of farm life on the vast American Plains, from the joys of an early spring day to the tragedy of suicide. Literary essayist H L Mencken considered Cather an extraordinary novelist: "'My Antonia' is the best piece of fiction ever done by a woman in America...I know of no novel that makes the remote fold of the western farmlands more real...", an appraisal that is as valid now as when it was first penned in 1920.

Author: Willa Cather
ISBN-10: 1907523693
ISBN-13: 9781907523694
Publisher: Aziloth Books
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2010
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.9
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 713 / My Antonia