Willa Cather

My Antonia By Willa Cather Illustrated Novel

My Antonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her first-rate works. It is the final e-book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by way of O Pioneers! And The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the memories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a circle of relatives of Bohemian immigrants, Antonia Shimerda, who are every introduced as children to be pioneers in Nebraska in the direction of the cease of the nineteenth century. Both the pioneers who first smash the prairie sod for farming, as well as of the tough but fertile land itself, feature on this American novel. The first 12 months inside the very new vicinity leaves strong impressions in both youngsters, affecting them lifelong.