My Ántonia
  • Published: 1 January 1994
  • ISBN: 9780553214185
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $12.99
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My Ántonia

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EBook
5 Sept 2019
EBook
5 Apr 2005
EBook
25 Jan 2005
EBook
1 Nov 2000
Paperback
19 Nov 2019
Paperback
15 Mar 2018
Paperback
1 Jan 1994
Hardback
7 Sept 2006
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Willa Cather’s best-loved novel and a beautiful portrayal of frontier life in Nebraska is published for the first time by Vintage Classics, with a new introduction by travel writer Sara Wheeler.

"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."

Ántonia Shimerda returns to Black Hawk, Nebraska, to make a fresh start after eloping with a railway conductor following the tragic death of her father. Accustomed to living in a sod house and toiling alongside the men in the fields, she is unprepared for the lecherous reaction her lush sensuality provokes when she moves to the city. Despite betrayal and crushing opposition, Ántonia steadfastly pursues her quest for happiness—a moving struggle that mirrors the quiet drama of the American landscape.
  • Published: 1 January 1994
  • ISBN: 9780553214185
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $12.99
Categories:

About the author

Willa Cather

Novels by Willa CatherAlexander's Bridge 1912 O Pioneers! 1913 The Song of the Lark 1915 My Ántonia 1918 One of Ours 1922 A Lost Lady 1923 The Professor's House 1925 My Mortal Enemy 1926 Death Comes for the Archbishop 1927 Shadows on the Rock 1931 Lucy Gayheart 1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl 1940
Short Fiction

The Troll Garden 1905 Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920 Obscure Destinies 1932 The Old Beauty and Others 1948 Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 1965 Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929 1972

Introducer Biography: Elaine Showalter is the author of the recent ground-breaking study of American women writers, A Jury of Her Peers, and the classic A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing.

Also by Willa Cather

A Lost Lady
Death Comes for the Archbishop
April Twilights and Other Poems
My Antonia
Alexander's Bridge
The Song of the Lark
Coming, Aphrodite!
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Praise for My Ántonia

The knowledge of long hardship gives weight to the novel’s exquisitely realized moments of fulfilment… Cather looks with a wise, clear eye on those quiet moments

Alexandra Harris, Harper's Bazaar

A clear-eyed salute to the resilience of the human spirit

Guardian

My Ántonia remains a revelation

The Paris Review
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