My Antonia (eBook)

Willa Cather (Autor)

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1995 | 1. Auflage
272 Seiten
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Verlag)
978-0-547-56158-5 (ISBN)

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My ntonia is one of eight classic American novels featured in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read initiative, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The Big Read provides citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their communities and is supported by expansive outreach and publicity campaigns. Over one hundred communities will participate in 2007, each with a program lasting approximately one month. A kick-off event is followed by panel discussions, film screenings, and lectures or public readings devoted to the book.
Willa Cather's heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman's life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains. Through Jim Burden's affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, the free-spirited ntonia Shimerda, a larger, uniquely American portrait emerges, both of a community struggling with unforgiving terrain and of a woman who, amid great hardship, stands as a timeless inspiration.

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The classic novel of an immigrant woman's life on the Nebraska plains is "e;a book for our times [and] an education in what it means to be American"e; (Bret Stephens, The New York Times). They came to the prairie on the same train: Jim Burden, a ten-year-old orphan from Virginia en route to his new home with his prosperous grandparents, and Antonia Shimerda, an immigrant from Bohemia, free-spirited and a few years older than Jim, traveling with her family. Through Jim's affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, a larger, uniquely American portrait emerges, both of a pioneer community struggling with unforgiving terrain and of a woman who, amid great hardship, stands as a timeless inspiration. One of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winner Willa Cather's My Antonia is an unforgettable story about coming of age, community, and the dangers and tragedies endured by those who made the long journey to the West. Includes a foreword by Kathleen Norris

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2023
• Vorwort: Kathleen Norris
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-547-56158-X / 054756158X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-547-56158-5 / 9780547561585