![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I first heard of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey. The copy presented here is the thirteenth impression of the first edition, printed in March, 1924, with illustrations by Władysław T. This special 100th Anniversary edition includes the full 1918 original version of the Willa Cathers book and provides other valuable features including a. A 100th anniversary edition of Cathers most-read, most-loved novel-with a new. ![]() Warning: template has been deprecated.- Excerpted from My Ántonia on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, this novel secured Willa Cather a place in the first rank of. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. Both the pioneers who first break the prairie sod for farming, as well as of the harsh but fertile land itself, feature in this American novel. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting. This novel is considered Cather's first masterpiece. My Ántonia is the final book of Cather's "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. ![]()
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