My Antonia

Willa Cather

Jan 2021 · Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

About this ebook

 My Antonia is a novel by an American writer Willa Cather. It is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants. They are both became pioneers and settled in Nebraska in the end of the 19th century. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. The narrator and the main character of the novel My Antonia, Jim grows up in Black Hawk, Nebraska from age 10 Eventually, he becomes a successful lawyer and moves to New York City.

Ratings and reviews

I struggle with the "classic" intellectual dialogue, but envey the writing skill of the descriptions and personalities of the people. And of course the story lines..

Great book.