O Pioneers
by Willa Cather
ISBN: 0812520769
ISBN-13: 9780812520767
Format: Paperback
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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: Tor Books
Published date: 1992
Size: 4.25 x 6.75 inches
Weight: 0.2 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Alexandra came from a hardy pioneer clan. Over the protests of her traditionally minded brothers, their dyin father wills her, not them, the family homestead. With an iron will, she resolves to wrest a prosperous enterprise from the unforgiving Nebraska soil. With her bold spirit, she must survive tragedy and hardship to keep her family together and tame the wild land that she loves.
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