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'The best thing I've done is My Antonia,' recalled Willa Cather. 'I feel I've made a contribution to American letters with that book.' Set against the vast Nebraska prairie, Cather's elegiac novel features one...
In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives...
Willa Cather's second novel is a timeless tale of a strong pioneer woman facing great challenges, shining a light on the immigrant experience, and revealing the emerging voice of one of our greatest authors....
Lush descriptions of the rolling Nebraska grasslands interweave with the blossoming of a woman in the early days of the twentieth century, in an epic novel that chronicles America's past.
A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century. The daughter of the family inherits the land when her father dies, and the story follows her struggle to maintain it when many around her...
With honesty and tenderness, Jim Burden recounts the life of his Ántoniathe free-spirited Bohemian girl who captured his heart and his imagination from their first encounter as young children.
My Ántonia...
This is Cather s coming-of-age classic---the story of a young artist who leaves the mediocrity of her home town to seek fame and success in the big city. A bittersweet reflection on severing oneself from one...
The finest family in Sweet Water, The Forresters are known for their gatherings, and Mrs. Forrester, to be an enchanting hostess. Neil Herbert finds himself at the Forester estate playing with friends, and he...
My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is...
Professor Godfrey St. Peter doesn't like the new direction that his life has taken. When he and his wife move into their new house, he decides to keep his study at the old house so that he will not have to let...
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. Alexandra inherits the family farm...
Claude, working on the family farm and married to a woman who is more interested in her missionary work than she is in him, tires of his monotonous life. When his wife leaves for China, he decides to enlist...
One of America’s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel—the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land...
A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather
The 42 page article was extracted from the book: Youth and the Bright Medusa, by Willa Cather.
Willa Cather is considered to be one of the best chroniclers of pioneer life in the 20th century. She had a long and distinguished career writing essays, poems, short stories, and novels. This story is a powerful...
Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland...
A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather
A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather