My Antonia
As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains ... And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.'My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows. Jim Burden recounts his memories of Antonia Shimerda, whose family settle in N
Domestic fiction
1 online resource (263 pages)
9780191587313, 9781280762192, 0191587311, 1280762195
712015920
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Willa Cather; MY ÁNTONIA; Appendix: Author's Introduction to the 1926 edition; Explanatory Notes