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

Formats & editions
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

Willa Cather was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer, best known for her novels of Nebraskan frontier life. Born in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia, she moved with her family to Catherton, Nebraska in 1883, and the landscape went on to have a formative effect on her. Before becoming a full-time writer, Cather worked as a journalist, a magazine editor and a teacher. Her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge, was published in 1912, followed by titles including O Pioneers! (1913); The Song of the Lark (1915); My Ántonia (1918); One of Ours (1922), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize; Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). She died in New York in 1947.
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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