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My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
My ntonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daug ...Show more
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Many academics consider My Antonia to be her first masterpiece, and it follows the story of a young orphan named Jim Burden who is transferred from Virginia to Nebraska to live with his grandparents on their farm. He befriends Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian girl who is going through her own problems as sh ...Show more
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A reissue of Willa Cather's best-loved novel and a beautiful portrayal of frontier life in Nebraska now with a new introduction by travel writer Sara Wheeler When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant ntonia ...Show more
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Great Plains Trilogy Ser.
Set in rural Nebraska, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is both the intricate story of a powerful friendship and a brilliant portrayal of the lives of rural pioneers in the late-nineteenth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foil ...Show more
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
My ntonia By Willa Cather My ntonia (first published 1918) is considered the greatest novel by American writer Willa Cather. My ntonia - pronounced with the accent on the first syllable of " ntonia" - is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels by Cather, a list that also includes O Pioneers an ...Show more
My Ántonia (Word Cloud Classics) by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Travel to the Old West with Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. Willa Cather's novels brought the life of American settlers on the Great Plains to the forefront of the nation's consciousness during a time when the lands west of the Mississippi were undergoing rapid transformation. My ntonia, considered ...Show more
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Great Plains Trilogy Ser.
O Pioneers by Willa CatherThe first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, f ...Show more
O Pioneers! (Penguin pocket classics) by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun...' A rapturous work of savage beauty, Willa Cather's 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie i ...Show more
Piers of the Homeless Night (Mini Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac; Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart . . . 'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.
The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe; L. Frank. Baum; Algernon Blackwood; Brothers Grimm; Willa Cather; Charles Dickens; Nathaniel. Hawthorne; Leo Tolstoy; Mark Twain
Category: Children's Books
Experience the warmth and wonder of Christmas through the masterful storytelling of some of our greatest literary minds. Sixteen classic stories capture the enduring appeal of the Christmas tradition, all wrapped in lore with heartwarming narratives of redemption and humorous tales of everyday life. Sel ...Show more
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Category: Classics | Series: Great Plains Trilogy Ser.
The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather. It is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, following O Pioneers (1913) and preceding My ntonia (1918). The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers ...Show more
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
All that deep-rooted vitality flowered in her voice, her face, in her very finger-tips. She felt like a tree bursting into bloom'Thea Kronberg, a young girl from the small desert town of Moonstone, Colorado, has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. This talent will take her all the way to the gre ...Show more