Editions

My Ántonia

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784874445

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 244g

  • 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 Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784874445

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 244g

  • 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"

    Alexandra Harris, Harper's Bazaar

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About the Author

Willa Cather

Novels by Willa CatherAlexander's Bridge 1912 O Pioneers! 1913 The Song of the Lark 1915 My Ántonia 1918 One of Ours 1922 A Lost Lady 1923 The Professor's House 1925 My Mortal Enemy 1926 Death Comes for the Archbishop 1927 Shadows on the Rock 1931 Lucy Gayheart 1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl 1940 Short Fiction The Troll Garden 1905 Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920 Obscure Destinies 1932 The Old Beauty and Others 1948 Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 1965 Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929 1972 Introducer Biography: Elaine Showalter is the author of the recent ground-breaking study of American women writers, A Jury of Her Peers, and the classic A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing.

Willa Cather

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