My Antonia

Introduction by Jane Smiley

Willa Cather

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Vintage
15 March 2018

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage Classics

A 100th anniversary edition of Cather's most-read, most-loved novel--with a new introduction by Jane Smiley.

In this symphonically powerfulnovel, Willa Cather created one of the most winningheroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country..

This 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa Cather's masterpiece features a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley.

Antonia Shimerda is thedaughter of Bohemian immigrants struggling with the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and disappointed admirer, we follow Antonia from farm to town and through hardships both natural and human, surviving everything from poverty to a failed romance--and not only surviving, but triumphing.

In the end, Antonia is exactly what Burden says she is- a woman who ""had that something which fires the imagination,

a woman who

could stop . . . one's breath for a moment by a look or a gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things.""

By: Willa Cather
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9780525562863
ISBN 10: 0525562869
Series: Vintage Classics
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 March 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!, My ntonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.

Reviews for My Antonia: Introduction by Jane Smiley

“No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.” –H. L. Mencken “The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway.” –Leon Edel