My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1918
- Form
- Novel
- Language
- English
- Length
- Medium · 240 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendMy ÁntoniaHoughton MifflinThe authorised text with W. T. Benda's original drawings and Cather's 1926 introduction.
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Jim Burden, a New York lawyer, writes down his memories of the Nebraska prairie where he was sent as an orphaned boy. His neighbours are the Shimerdas, Bohemian immigrants with no English and no money, whose father kills himself in his first winter and whose eldest daughter Ántonia becomes Jim's closest friend. As the sod houses give way to farms and the town, Jim goes to school, to university and east; Ántonia works the fields, is seduced and abandoned by a railway conductor, and returns. Years later he finds her worn out, surrounded by children, and still the force he remembers.
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