Willa Cather
1) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
MY ANTONIA is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia, who has settled in Nebraska. Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden, the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative years, as well as, through the persona of Jim, Cather's experience of New York, where she worked as Editor of the MCCLURE magazine. MY ANTONIA is the third in a sequence of Cather's works which deal with immigrant settlers in the USA. Writing as a...
2) O pioneers!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not brought peace, as passion and love intervene.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 49
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 35
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
10) Later novels
Author
Series
Library of America volume 49
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 57
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and women who struggled to adapt to the new world even as they clung to the one they had left behind.