Summary
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The story of Antonia Shimerda is told by on of the friends of her childhood, Jim Burden, an orphaned boy from Virginia. Though he leaves the prairie, Jim never forgets the Bohemian girl who so profoundly influenced his life. An immigrant child of immigrant parents, Antonia's girlhood is spent working to help her parents wrest a living from the untamed land. Though in later years she suffers betrayal and desertion, through all the hardships of her life she preserves a valor of spirit that no hardship can daunt or break.When Jim Burden sees her again after many years he finds her ""a rich mine of life"," a figure who has turned adversity into a particular kind of triumph in the true spirit of the pioneer.
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- Title My Antonia
- Author Willa Cather
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1994-10-21
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780486282404 / 0486282406
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.24 x 5.26 x 0.49 in (20.93 x 13.36 x 1.24 cm)
- Ages 11 to UP years
- Grade levels 6 - UP
- Reading level 990
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Nebraska
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Country/Cowboy
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Women pioneers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94027053
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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