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My Ántonia / Willa Cather; with an introduction by Walter Havighurst ; suggestions for reading and discussion by Bertha Handlan.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women immigrants--Fiction.
- Women immigrants.
- Farmers' spouses--Fiction.
- Farmers' spouses.
- Czech Americans--Fiction.
- Czech Americans.
- Women pioneers--Fiction.
- Women pioneers.
- Married women--Fiction.
- Married women.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Farm life--Fiction.
- Farm life.
- Nebraska--Fiction.
- Nebraska.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Western stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Hartford Public Schools (Hartford, Conn.) (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [1949]
- Summary:
- A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl.
- Contents:
- Prairie life in My Antonia / Walter Havinghurst
- Text
- For reading and discussion: the novel as a whole.
- Notes:
- Fifth edition. Cf. Crane.
- "The pioneer and settler in fiction ... a short list of novels": pages [265]-266.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has remains of ownership label (of the Hartford Public School District?) with ms. numeral ("75") in ink and ms. inscription ("Discard") in pencil on front pastedown.
- Cited in:
- Crane, J. Willa Cather: a bibliography, A9.e.i
- OCLC:
- 2678803
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