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My Antonia / by Willa Sibert Cather ; with introduction by Stephanie Vaughn.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 793
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
- Series:
- Bantam classic
- 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:
- xxix, 289 pages ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- Bantam Classic edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bantam Books, 1994, 1918.
- Summary:
- The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
- Contents:
- Book I. The Shimerdas 7
- Book II. The Hired Girls 115
- Book III. Lena Lingard 201
- Book IV. The Pioneer Woman's Story 231
- Book V. Cuzak's Boys 253.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0553214187
- 9780553214185
- OCLC:
- 29862493
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