| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 228 pages). |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Bk. 1. The shimerdas -- book 2. The hired girls -- book 3. Lena Lingard -- book 4. The pioneer woman's story -- book 5. Cuzak's boys. |
| Summary |
As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains ... And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.'My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows. Jim Burden recounts his memories of Antonia Shimerda, whose family settle in Nebraska from Bohemia. Together they share childhoods spent in a new world. Jim leaves the prairie for college and a career in theeast, while Antonia devotes herself to her large family and productive farm. Her story is that of the land itself, a moving portrait of endurance and strength. Described on publication as 'one of the best [novels] that any American has ever done', My Antonia paradoxically took Cather out of the rank of provincial novelists as the same time that it celebrated the provinces, and mythologized a period of American history that had to be lost before its value could be understood. |
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Women immigrants -- Fiction.
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Farmers' spouses -- Fiction.
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Czech Americans -- Fiction.
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Women pioneers -- Fiction.
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Married women -- Fiction.
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Farm life -- Fiction.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- Fiction.
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Nebraska -- Fiction.
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Middle West -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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Czech Americans. (OCoLC)fst00886333
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Farm life. (OCoLC)fst00921052
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Farmers' spouses. (OCoLC)fst00921399
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Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Married women. (OCoLC)fst01010701
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Women immigrants. (OCoLC)fst01177764
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Women pioneers. (OCoLC)fst01178307
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Middle West. (OCoLC)fst01240052
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Nebraska. (OCoLC)fst01208998
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
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Electronic books.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Western stories.
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Domestic fiction.
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| Added Author |
Sharistanian, Janet.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. My Ántonia. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2005019320 |
| ISBN |
9780191587313 (electronic bk.) |
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0191587311 (electronic bk.) |
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