My ÁntoniaRandom House Publishing Group, 2005 M01 25 - 288 pages 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." |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afternoon ain't Ambrosch Ántonia asked baby barn began Black Hawk Bohemian boys Charles Dickens Charley clothes cornfields cut bands Cutter Cuzak D. H. Lawrence d'Arnault dance dark door dress Edith Wharton eyes face farm feel fellow felt Firemen's Hall Fuchs Fyodor Dostoevsky garden girls grandfather grandmother hair hands hard Harling head heard horses Jake and Otto Jane Austen Jelinek Jim Burden kitchen knew kolaches Krajiek laughed Lena Lingard Lena's Lincoln lived looked loved Mark Twain married morning mother Nebraska neighbours never night Nina Norwegian Ordinsky papa parlour Pavel Peter play prairie remember road seemed Shimerda shoulder snow Steavens stood story stove summer supper talk tell things Thomas Hardy thought told Tony took town trees wagon walked warm watched whispered Willa Cather windmill window winter woman young Yulka