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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679741879

ISBN-139780679741879

eBay Product ID (ePID)53155

Product Key Features

Book TitleMy Antonia

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1994

TopicClassics, Literary, Historical

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorWilla Cather

Book SeriesVintage Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.5 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-043717

Reviews"No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful asMy Antonia."-H.L. Mencken From the Paperback edition., "No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Antonia."--H.L. Mencken From the Paperback edition., "No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Antonia ."--H.L. Mencken, "No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Antonia ."-H.L. Mencken From the Paperback edition.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.52

SynopsisIn this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. Antonia Shimerda is the daughter 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.", In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. Antonia Shimerda is the daughter 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."

LC Classification NumberPS3505.A87M8 1994b