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My Ántonia

Willa Cather

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Jim Burden, orphaned at ten, travels west by train to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska prairie. On the same train is a family of Bohemian…

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Author
Willa Cather
Category
Novels & Stories
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

Jim Burden, orphaned at ten, travels west by train to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska prairie. On the same train is a family of Bohemian immigrants, and their daughter Ántonia becomes his companion in the vast, windy grassland: they learn English together, kill a rattlesnake and live through a winter in which her father, homesick for the old country, takes his own life.

Context and significance

Willa Cather (1873–1947) moved to Nebraska as a child and drew on the immigrant families she knew there. Published in 1918, My Ántonia is a novel of memory, friendship and the land, and one of the great American books about immigrants. Read it with O Pioneers!.

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