My Ántonia: Willa Cather (Macmillan Collector's Library, 207)

by Bridget Bennett (Introduction), Bridget Bennett (Introduction), W.T. Benda (Illustrator), Willa Cather (Author)

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2019
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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Set in rural Nebraska, Willa Cather's My Antonia is both the intricate story of a childhood friendship and a brilliant portrayal of the lives of rural pioneers in the late 19th century. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition has an afterword by Professor Bridget Bennett.
Antonia and her family are from Bohemia and they must endure real hardship and loss to establish a new home in America. But Antonia is never broken by adversity and her strength and love of life stays with Jim for years to come, even as he leaves home to study and pursue his career. Told through Jim's eyes, My Antonia is a rich and beautiful novel about childhood and growing up, different cultures and the lure of home.

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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Set in rural Nebraska, Willa Cather's My Antonia is both the intricate story of a childhood friendship and a brilliant portrayal of the lives of rural pioneers in the late 19th century. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition has an afterword by Professor Bridget Bennett.

Antonia and her family are from Bohemia and they must endure real hardship and loss to establish a new home in America. But Antonia is never broken by adversity and her strength and love of life stays with Jim for years to come, even as he leaves home to study and pursue his career. Told through Jim's eyes, My Antonia is a rich and beautiful novel about childhood and growing up, different cultures and the lure of home.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 336
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
Published: 05 Sep 2019
ISBN 10: 1509899782
ISBN 13: 9781509899784

Media Reviews

It's one of the warmest, most quietly rousing books that I know; a clear-eyed salute to the resilience of the human spirit and the innate hardiness of the immigrants who came across the ocean to start afresh in the golden west -- Xan Brooks * The Guardian *
Willa Cather was a wordsmith of enormous talent -- Robert Slayton * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Her novels stick in the reader's mind as flickering memories of places we may never have seen with our own eyes -- Jane Smiley * The Paris Review *

Author Bio

Born in 1873, Willa Cather was raised in Virginia and Nebraska. After graduating from Lincoln University she spent ten years establishing herself as a theater critic, journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh whilst also writing short stories and poems. She then moved to New York where she took a job as an investigative journalist before becoming a full time writer. Cather enjoyed great literary success and won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours. She's now best known for her Prairie trilogy; O Pioneers!, Song of the Lark and My Antonia. She traveled extensively and died in New York in 1947.