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My Ántonia
"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." Antonia Shimerda returns to Black Hawk, …
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather said that O Pioneers! was her first authentic novel, “the first time I walked off on my own feet—everything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom …
Willa Cather: Later Novels (LOA #49)
Alexander's Bridge
'The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway' LEON EDEL 'Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic' HELEN DUNMORE 'She is …
The World and the Parish, Volume 2
"One of the few really helpful words I ever heard from an older writer," Willa Cather declared in 1922, "I had from Sarah Orne Jewett when she said to me: 'Of course, one day you …
O Pioneers!
The novel that first made Willa Cather famous--a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman--in a handsome hardcover volume. …
O Pioneers!
Alexandra Bergson is the eldest child of a Swedish immigrant family newly arrived in the harsh untamed landscape of the American West. An original, determined child, she is driven …
Christmas Classics
"Christmas Classics" presents comics adaptations of both holiday favorites and rarities, featuring Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Also included are an early F. Scott …
My Antonia
"There was nothing but land...the material out of which countries are made." ntonia Shimerda, Bohemian immigrant and embodiment of the American myth, arrives in this Nebraska …
Song of the Lark
A searing coming-of-age story of a young singer, set against the backdrop of the 1890s American West.The Song of the Lark follows Thea Kronborg as she tries to leave her small-town …
Shadows on the Rock
Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to a new world even as they …
Willa Cather in Europe
Willa Cather was twenty-eight years old in the summer of 1902 when she saw England and France for the first time. Behind her stretched the Nebraska fields of her childhood and …