My �ntonia Paperback - 2013

Name: My ?ntonia
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Author: Willa Cather
ISBN: 9780803245709

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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

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Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, this novel secured Willa Cather a place in the first rank of American writers. Cather called My ntonia "the best thing I've done." For Oliver Wendell Holmes, My ntonia had "unfailing charm, perhaps not to be defined; a beautiful tenderness, a vivifying imagination that transforms but does not distort or exaggerate." H. L. Mencken declared it "one of the best [novels] any American has ever done."

Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in frontier Nebraska for this, her fourth novel, published in 1918. Old immigrant neighbors inspired many of the characters, particularly the heroine. ntonia Shimerda is memorable as the warmhearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie. She survives and matures, a pioneer woman made radiant by spirit.

W. T. Benda's illustrations further illuminate the fiction of a writer who drew so extensively on actual experience.

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.

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Title My �ntonia
Author Cather, Willa
Binding Paperback
Edition Paperback
Pages 360
Language ENG
Publisher Bison Books
Date 2013
ISBN 9780803245709
Themes
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Geographic Orientation: Nebraska

About the author

Willa Cather (1873-1947) was born in Virginia; her family moved to Nebraska in 1883 and eventually settled in Red Cloud. After graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1895, she returned to Red Cloud briefly before moving east to work on Home Monthly and, later, McClure's. Her first published books were the poetry collection April Twilights and the short-story collection The Troll Garden. My ntonia is part of Cather's Prairie Trilogy, which includes O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark, all available in Bison Books editions. In 1923 Cather received the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours.

W. T. Benda (1873-1948) was an illustrator and painter whose work appeared in numerous formats, including books, magazines, and advertisements.

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