My Antonia: Foreword by Jerry Depew Paperback - 2012

Name: My Antonia: Foreword by Jerry Depew
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Author: Willa Cather
ISBN: 9780983582311

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About this book

My Ántonia (first published 1918) is considered one of the greatest novels by American writer Willa Cather. My Ántonia, pronounced with the accent on the first syllable of "Ántonia," is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels by Cather, a list that also includes O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. My Ántonia follows an orphaned boy, Jim, and a Bohemian immigrant child, Ántonia, upon their introduction to Nebraska as pioneers. The novel depicts the struggles and successes of the pair throughout their lifetime. The first edition of My Ántonia in 1918 opened with an introduction depicting a conversation on a train that was later cut from the novel in a revised 1926 edition by Houghton Mifflin

From the publisher

Travel back in time to the Nebraska prairies of the 1880s with Willa Cather, the author of this famous classic. She was there. She heard the wind moan over the red-grass praires, the howl of the coyotes, and the clanging of the windmill in the night. Jim Burden, the narrator of the novel, encounters a Bohemian girl, Antonia, who makes an impact on his soul. Observing her struggles in the new land, he is amazed by how she overcomes the obstacles, trials, and tribulations of life. One reader said, "I couldn't put it down until I finished it. Another reader said that she had read it years ago, and "its poignant moments linger with me."

First Edition Identification

First edition published by Houghton Mifflin in 1918. The first printing comprised 3500 copies, 2500 of the copies had illustrations by W.T. Benda printed on glossy paper, and 1000 uncoated paper. A second 'first edition' with a cut introduction was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1926.

Details

Title My Antonia: Foreword by Jerry Depew
Author Willa Cather
Binding Paperback
Pages 278
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Paralogos Publishing
Date 2012-08-25
ISBN 9780983582311 / 0983582319
Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
Dimensions 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.58 in (22.91 x 15.19 x 1.47 cm)
Reading level 990
Themes
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Geographic Orientation: Nebraska
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Willa Cather was an American author of many great novels. She won the Pulitzer Prize for "One of her Own," but many believe that her best novel was "My Antonia." She and her parents moved to a farm near Red Cloud, Nebraska in the 1880s. Later they would move into the town of Red Cloud. Many of the characters in her novels were based on people from this small town. In "My Antonia," the town was called Blackhawk. The Willa Cather Foundation has restored the home of her childhood, and many thousands of people visit her former home each year. It is like taking a visit back into time because many of the books of her childhood and many of the things of her parents and grandmother are there. Cather is best known for the trilogy novels about Nebraska pioneers--"O Pioneers," "The Song of the Lark," and "My Antonia."