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O Pioneers

by Willa Cather

ISBN: 0395083656
ISBN-13: 9780395083659
Format: Paperback

Summary

Willa Cather's O PIONEERS!, first published in 1913, tells the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who successfully takes over the management of the family farm upon her father's death. The story encompasses Alexandra's difficult relationships with her brothers, Oscar and Lou, her love for a neighbor, Carl Lindstrom, and the tragic romance between her youngest brother, Emil, and a married woman. The setting is as important as the events of the story, however. Alexandra's near-obsessive love for the huge sky and vast plains of Nebraska is part of what fuels the plot, and Cather's chronicle of the prairie's evolution from a raw and wild landscape to thriving farmland reflects her own love of the land and her admiration for the immigrants who worked it. O PIONEERS! is an early novel, and in later books Cather would become more skilled at dialogue and plotting, but the passionate conviction she brought to this novel secures its position as one of her greatest works.

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"Miss Cather ranks with Mrs. Wharton...as one of the American talents who are not merely agreeable but worth the most exact study..."    -- Sinclair Lewis

   -- New York Post

"The passion of the artist, the heroism of the pioneers-these are the human qualities Miss Cather knows best."    -- Carl Van Doren

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published date: 1997
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Pages: 180

Publisher's Notes

Cather's classic story of Alexandra Bergson, a courageous Swedish woman who must assume responsibility for the farm and family after her father's death in 19th-century Nebraska. A Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Jessica Lange and David Strathem, to air on CBS on February 3, 1992.

Other Editions

Hardcover Illustrated - Univ of Nebraska Pr (1992) - from $5.90
Paperback - Houghton Mifflin (1997) - from $1.00

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