Editions

My Ántonia

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781473559417

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • RRP: £8.99

My Ántonia

Willa Cather’s best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska.

When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda. Their childhoods are full of shared adventures but as they grow their paths diverge, spurred on by the dire poverty of the Shimerda family. Yet Jim will never forget Ántonia, spellbound by her strength and remarkable free spirit.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TRAVEL WRITER SARA WHEELER

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781473559417

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "A clear-eyed salute to the resilience of the human spirit"

    Guardian

  • "My Ántonia remains a revelation"

    The Paris Review

  • "The knowledge of long hardship gives weight to the novel’s exquisitely realized moments of fulfilment… Cather looks with a wise, clear eye on those quiet moments"

    Harper's Bazaar

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About the Author

Willa Cather

Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and moved to Nebraska, with its wide open plains and immigrant farming communities, at the age of nine. This landscape would deeply affect her later writing. She attended university and became a journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh, and then a magazine editor in New York. Her first major novel, O Pioneers!, appeared in 1913 and was followed by two more in her prairie trilogy, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia, as well as her masterpiece Death Comes for the Archbishop. She lived with the editor Edith Lewis for thirty-nine years until her death in 1947.

Willa Cather

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