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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-10039575514X

ISBN-139780395755143

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038294982

Product Key Features

Book TitleMy Antonia

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicClassics, Literary, Coming of Age

GenreFiction

AuthorWilla Cather

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6.6 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width4.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN95-030223

Reviews"For the beauty of the writing, I would say that my go-to is actually My Antonia by Willa Cather, which is a book I first read in high school and found slightly boring but beautiful, and then read again in my 20s and was just totally enraptured by and then have gone back to again and again and again as a beautiful piece of writing" -- Rebecca Traister "No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia." -- H. L. Mencken

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromNinth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.52

SynopsisThe reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of immigrants., My Ántonia is one of eight classic American novels featured in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read initiative, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The Big Read provides citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their communities and is supported by expansive outreach and publicity campaigns. Over one hundred communities will participate in 2007, each with a program lasting approximately one month. A kick-off event is followed by panel discussions, film screenings, and lectures or public readings devoted to the book. Willa Cather's heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman's life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains. Through Jim Burden's affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, the free-spirited Ántonia Shimerda, a larger, uniquely American portrait emerges, both of a community struggling with unforgiving terrain and of a woman who, amid great hardship, stands as a timeless inspiration., One of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century, Willa Cather's heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman's life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains. Through Jim Burden's affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, the free-spirited Ántonia Shimerda, a larger, uniquely American portrait emerges, both of a community struggling with unforgiving terrain and of a woman who, amid great hardship, stands as a timeless inspiration. With a Foreword by Kathleen Norris, One of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century, Willa Cather's heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman's life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains.Through Jim Burden's affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, the free-spirited Ántonia Shimerda, a larger, uniquely American portrait emerges, both of a community struggling with unforgiving terrain and of a woman who, amid great hardship, stands as a timeless inspiration. With a Foreword by Kathleen Norris

LC Classification NumberPS3505.A87M8 1995