This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first published edition of the novel. Ántonia and Jim, like many of the other characters in this 1918 novel, are based on Cather's childhood friends. Neuware - Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather's own (Red Cloud), My Ántonia tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.Taschenbuch.

Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. My Ántonia (1918): No romantic novel ever written in America. The Song of the Lark (1915): ∺ story of something better than suggestiveness and charma thing finished, sound, and noble.” The Nation The thing about Willa Cather’s landscape and figures is that not only were they born alive but remain so after six decades.” Guardian The time will come when she’ll be ranked above Hemingway.”Leon Edel Many critics have stated that Cather might have won a Nobel Prize had she not been a woman in a time of gender inequality. Her childhood in the woodlands of Virginia and on the prairies of Nebraska formed the inspiration for many of her novels, and her devotion to education provided the basis for her lifetime of achievement.

Willa Cather is one of America’s most treasured writers. This volume contains four great works (O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and One of Ours) by the author who created the first autonomous and successful women’s heroes in American literature.

1918 novel by willa cather