My Ántonia / Willa Cather.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Series:

Dover thrift editions

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)

Physical Description:

xi, 175 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover, 1994.

Summary:

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.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

0486282406

9780486282404

OCLC:

30894639

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