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My Antonia
Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author)
ISBN: 1844083748     ISBN-13: 9781844083749
Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
OUR PRICE:   $12.59  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2006
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Annotation: Lush descriptions of the rolling Nebraska grasslands interweave with the blossoming of a woman in the early days of the 20th century, in an epic novel that chronicles America's past. Includes a new Introduction. Reissue.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 990
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.02" W x 7.78" (0.56 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Rural
- Cultural Region - Plains
- Cultural Region - Upper Midwest
- Geographic Orientation - Nebraska
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 713
Reading Level: 6.9   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 14.0
 
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Publisher Description:

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. S. BYATT

'During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had both known long ago. More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood . . . His mind was full of her that day. He made me see her again, feel her presence, revived all my old affection for her.'

My Antonia is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman's life on the Nebraska plains, seen through the eyes of her childhood friend, Jim Burden. The beautiful, free-spirited, wild-eyed girl captured Jim's imagination long ago and haunts him still, embodying for him the elemental spirit of the American frontier.

In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction.