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Original Title:	My Ántonia
ISBN:	1583485090 (ISBN13: 9781583485095)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Great Plains Trilogy #3
Characters:	Ántonia Shimerda, Jim Burden, Josiah Burden, Emmaline Burden, Ambrosch Shimerda, Lena Lingard, Otto Fuchs, Jake Marpole, Mr. Shimerda, Mrs. Shimerda
Setting:	Nebraska(United States)

My Ántonia (Great Plains Trilogy #3) Paperback | Pages: 232 pages

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Title	:	My Ántonia (Great Plains Trilogy #3)
Author	:	Willa Cather
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 232 pages
Published	:	February 20th 2000 by New Millennium Library (first published 1918)
Categories	:	Spirituality. Nonfiction. Religion. Philosophy. Self Help

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Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia.

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What a spell Willa Cather weaves in this, the final book of her Great Plains Trilogy, sometimes known as the Prairie Trilogy. This novel, more than any of the two previous novels, reminded me absurdly yet so strongly of Kent Harufs novels. Absurdly? Yes their time frame is separated by a few generations and their locations separated by a few States in-between. Yet, it is the atmosphere created, the way the stories are told simply yet clearly and with great feeling these are the qualities that

My rating for My Ántonia? 5 stars shining brightly in the cloudless Nebraska sky, so vividly and lovingly evoked by Willa Cather in this elegiac novel about farmers and immigrant settlers making lives for themselves in the harsh, beautiful, bountiful prairies.(Sorry about that graceless run-on incomplete sentence. Cather, with her clear, descriptive, unpretentious prose, would never commit such a sin.)Some people and places are forever etched in our memories. Can you recall the landscapes of

Well, a strange book.The author starts off by denying that she is the author. Not my story, no sirree, I have no responsibility what so ever for what happens between those pages, nuthin' to do with me, it's these guys you see having a gossip on a railway carriage, one of them narrates the scene and the other one, well he's the one who writes the story.Having asserted her distance from the narrative, she is free to write what ever she wants. What she wants is a bit strange. The narration is meant

I am absolutely convinced that I have fallen in love with Cathers writing, she abducts you with the detailed descriptions of the landscapes and with the characters of her stories, creating a real addiction to your soul...In this work we find the destiny of Bohemian and Scandinavian families struggling with the hard life and survival in the new world, precisely in Nebraska and Kansas.Cather will make us discover the saga of the Shimeda family, of which Antonia belongs to and the Harling family,

i read this book the same day i found out that sparkling ice had introduced two new flavors, pineapple coconut and lemonade.what does this have to do with anything, you ask??well, sparkling ice is sort of a religion with me, and this book was wonderful, so it was kind of a great day, is all. i don't have a lot of those.why have i never read willa cather before? i'm not sure. i think i just always associated her with old ladies, and i figured i would read her on my deathbed or something. maybe it

Like The Great Gatsby, I somehow avoided having to read this in high school, although I remember a lot of my friends reading Cather's book for Honors English while I was suffering through Summer of My German Soldier in regular people English. (Turns out, even if you're a voracious teenage reader, they still don't let you take honors classes if you spend your entire high school career constantly being one bad quiz away from straight-up flunking whatever math class you're in at the time) I don't

"There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made."- Willa Cather, My Ántonia For someone who grew up watching "Little House on the Prairie", this was an interesting and nostalgic look at my childhood fancies and romanticized images of frontier life. Making a new life, taming the land, and