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Author:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Title:

My Antonia with an introduction by Walter Havighurst. Suggestions for reading and discussion by Bertha Handlan.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin

Copyright Date:

1949

Description:

xvi, 266 p. illus. 21 cm.

Subject:

Women immigrants--Fiction.
Farmers' spouses--Fiction.
Czech Americans--Fiction.
Women pioneers--Fiction.
Married women--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Farm life--Fiction.
Nebraska--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Western stories.

Other Authors:

Handlan, Bertha, 1909-

Notes:

"The pioneer and settler in fiction ... a short list of novels": p. [265]-266.

Summary:

One of the best-loved classics of American fiction. My Antonia is a classic tale of pioneer life in the American Midwest. The novel details daily life in the newly settled plains of Nebraska through the eyes of Jim Burden, who recounts memories of a childhood shared with a girl named Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of a family who have emigrated from Bohemia. As adults, Jim leaves the prairie for college and a career in the east, while Antonia devotes herself to her large family and productive farm. When he returns Jim sees that although Antonia is careworn, she remains "a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races,". Full of stirring descriptions of the prairie's beautiful yet terrifying landscape, and the rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans who chose to restart their lives there, My Antonia mythologized a period of American history that was lost before its value could be understood.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)2678803

Locations:

AIPC937 -- Karl Miles Lecompte Memorial Library (Corydon)

FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)