| My Antonia by Willa Cather, Fiction, Classics Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author) |
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ISBN: 160312795X ISBN-13: 9781603127950 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $27.86 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: The most celebrated of Willa Cather's novels of Nebraska frontier life, "My Antonia" chronicles a generation in the lives of settlers in one small community. The narrator reflects with wistful, unjudgmental melancholy on his family, the experience of growing up in the midst of only partial tamed vastness, the humanity and folly of those around him, and above on on the captivating immigrant girl Antonia, whom he must always love from afar. "My Antonia" is full of the quiet losses of a life full of difficult decisions, but also the quiet satisfactions of goodness cherished despite all hardship. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 990 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - 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 narrator reflects with wistful, unjudgmental melancholy on his family, the experience of growing up in the midst of only partial tamed vastness, the humanity and folly of those around him, and above on on the captivating immigrant girl Antonia, whom he must always love from afar. My Antonia is full of the quiet losses of a life full of difficult decisions, but also the quiet satisfactions of goodness cherished despite all hardship. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cather, Willa: - "Willa Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Antonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick." |