| My Antonia Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553214187 ISBN-13: 9780553214185 Publisher: Bantam Classics OUR PRICE: $5.36 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: The story of Antonia Shimerda is told by on of the friends of her childhood, Jim Burden, an orphaned boy from Virginia. Though he leaves the prairie, Jim never forgets the Bohemian girl who so profoundly influenced his life. An immigrant child of immigrant parents, Antonia's girlhood is spent working to help her parents wrest a living from the untamed land. Though in later years she suffers betrayal and desertion, through all the hardships of her life she preserves a valor of spirit that no hardship can daunt or break.When Jim Burden sees her again after many years he finds her ""a rich mine of life"," a figure who has turned adversity into a particular kind of triumph in the true spirit of the pioneer. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011656931 |
| Lexile Measure: 990 |
| Series: Bantam Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 4.2" W x 6.8" (0.30 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Nebraska |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 713 Reading Level: 6.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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." ntonia 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, ntonia steadfastly pursues her quest for happiness--a moving struggle that mirrors the quiet drama of the American landscape. |