Willa Cather

My Antonia Willa Cather

Publisher Marketing: Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather s own (Red Cloud), My Antonia tells the story of Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. Antonia and Jim, like many of the other characters in this 1918 novel, are based on Cather s childhood friends. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first published edition of the novel. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, key illustrations, an introduction that gives readers a historical overview of both author and novel, and a note on the text. Contexts and Backgrounds is a rich collection of materials organized around the novel s central themes: Autobiographical and Biographical Writings, Letters, and Americanization and Immigration. Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, Latrobe Carroll, Rose C. Feld, Guy Reynolds, Woodrow Wilson, Peter Roberts, Horace M. Kallen, Sarka B. Hrbkova, and Rose Rosicky, among others, are included. Criticism spans a century of scholarship on Willa Cather and My Antonia, from contemporary reviews by Henry Walcott Boynton, H. L. Mencken, and Elia W. Peattie, among others, to recent critical assessments by Terence Martin, Blanche Gelfant, Jean Schwind, Richard H. Millington, Susan Rosowski, Mike Fischer, Janis Stout, Marilee Lindemann, and Linda Joyce Brown. A Chronology of Cather s life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included. Review Citations: Booklist 09/01/2007 pg. 139 (EAN 9780786168545, Compact Disc) Ingram Paperback Advance 03/01/2005 pg. 63 (EAN 9780451529725, Mass Market Paperbound) School Library Journal 03/01/2004 (EAN 9781400100743, Other) Newsweek 10/29/2007 pg. 16 (EAN 9780140187649, Paperback) Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 96 (EAN 9780140187649, Paperback) Library Journal 02/15/1995 (EAN 9780803214682, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 111 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 157 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 734 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 90 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 900 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 125 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 101 (EAN 9780140283273, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 02/24/2014 (EAN 9781629230702, Compact Disc) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 594 (EAN 9780395755143, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1992 pg. 674 (EAN 9780395083567, Paperback) Booklist 01/15/1992 pg. 910 (EAN 9780395083567, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1992 pg. 674 (EAN 9780395075142, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1997 pg. 625 (EAN 9780395075142, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1995 pg. 111 (EAN 9780395075142, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Cather, Willa One of the great American writers of the twentieth century, Willa Cather is the author of such classics as "O Pioneers!""My Antonia", and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "One of Ours".