My Antonia

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000062410

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My Antonia by Willa Cather Pdf

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.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781722525040

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My Antonia by Willa Cather Pdf

A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers, in particular. Written in the style of a memoir penned by Antonia’s tutor and friend, the book depicts one of the most memorable heroines in American literature, the spirited eldest daughter of a Czech immigrant family, whose calm, quite strength and robust spirit helped her survive the hardships and loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. The two form an enduring bond and through his chronicle, we watch Antonia shape the land while dealing with poverty, treachery, and tragedy. “No romantic novel ever written in America...is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.” -H. L. Mencken Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. By the time of her death she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849672898

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The Great Plains Trilogy by Willa Cather Pdf

Willa Cather was the 1922 winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her breakthrough in literature were the three novels featured here in this edition, the so-called “Great Plains Trilogy”. All three novels stage in Nebraska and the surrounding Great Plains territory and deal with the life there, family challenges and romance. Included are: O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark My Antonia

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112002528336

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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Pdf

A novelist and short-story writer, Willa Cather is today widely regarded as one of the foremost American authors of the twentieth century. Particularly renowned for the memorable women she created for such works as My Antonia and O Pioneers!, she pens the portrait of another formidable character in The Song of the Lark. This, her third novel, traces the struggle of the woman as artist in an era when a woman's role was far more rigidly defined than it is today. The prototype for the main character as a child and adolescent was Cather herself, while a leading Wagnerian soprano at the Metropolitan Opera (Olive Fremstad) became the model for Thea Kronborg, the singer who defies the limitations placed on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. A coming-of-age-novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, The Song of the Lark is one of Cather's most popular and lyrical works. Book jacket.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849627935

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The Prairie Trilogy by Willa Cather Pdf

Willa Cather was the 1922 winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her breakthrough in literature were the three novels featured here in this edition, the so-called Prairie trilogy. All three novels stage in Nebraska and the surrounding Great Plains territory and deal with the life there, family challenges and romance. Featured here are: O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark My Antonia

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 2491251345

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My Ántonia: A 1918 Novel by American Writer Willa Cather, and the Final Book of Her Prairie Trilogy of Novels, Preceded by O Pione by Willa Cather Pdf

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Americanization
ISBN : 0393967905

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My Antonia by Willa Cather Pdf

In the final volume in her prairie trilogy, Willa Cather fully transforms memory into art to create her most autobiographical novel.

Author : David Macaulay
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547346328

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The Way We Work by David Macaulay Pdf

In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. In order to present this complicated subject in an accurate and entertaining way, he put in years of research. He sat in on anatomy classes, dissections, and even reached inside the rib cages of two cadavers to compare their spleen sizes. He observed numerous surgeries, including a ten-hour procedure where a diseased pancreas was removed, as well as one where a worn-out old knee was replaced by a brand new one. This hands-on investigation gives Macaulay a unique perspective to lead his readers on a visual journey through the workings of the human body. The seven sections within the book take us from the cells that form our foundation to the individual systems they build. Each beautifully illustrated spread details different aspects of our complex structure, explaining the function of each and offering up-close glimpses, unique cross-sections and perspectives, and even a little humor along the way. This one-of-a-kind book can serve as a reference for children, families, teachers, and anyone who has questions about how his or her body works. When readers see how David Macaulay builds a body and explains the way it works, they will come away with a new appreciation of the amazing world inside them.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743487696

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My Antonia by Willa Cather Pdf

A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl. Includes background information, a chronology of the author's life, explanatory notes, critical analyses, and other reference material.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110639

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O Pioneers! by Willa Cather Pdf

In this landmark of American fiction, Cather tells the story of young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm.

Author : Sharon O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521459052

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New Essays on My Ántonia by Sharon O'Brien Pdf

A collection of essays on Willa Cather's most famous novel, My Antonia.

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307389435

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You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem Pdf

Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem delivers a hilarious novel about love, art, and what it's like to be young in Los Angeles. Lucinda Hoekke's daytime gig as a telephone operator at the Complaint Line—an art gallery's high-minded installation piece—is about as exciting as listening to dead air. Her real passion is playing bass in her forever struggling, forever unnamed band. But recently a frequent caller, the Complainer, as Lucinda dubs him, has captivated her with his philosophical musings. When Lucinda's band begins to incorporate the Complainer's catchy, existential phrases into their song lyrics, they are suddenly on the cusp of their big break. There is only one problem: the Complainer wants in. BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes an excerpt from Jonathan Lethem's Dissident Gardens.

Author : James Forrester, M.D.
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781466862555

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The Heart Healers by James Forrester, M.D. Pdf

At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On Sept. 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time. Once it was deemed possible to perform surgery on the heart, others followed. In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssman inserted a cardiac catheter in his own arm and forced the x-ray technician on duty to take a photo as he successfully threaded it down the vein into his own heart...and lived. On June 6, 1944 - D-Day - another momentous event occurred far from the Normandy beaches: Dr. Dwight Harken sutured the shrapnel-injured heart of a young soldier, saved his life and the term "cardiac surgeon" born. Dr. Forrester tells the story of these rebels and the risks they took with their own lives and the lives of others to heal the most elemental of human organs - the heart. The result is a compelling chronicle of a disease and its cure, a disease that is still with us, but one that is slowly being worn away by "The Heart Healers".

Author : Colleen Swaim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 076482029X

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Ablaze by Colleen Swaim Pdf

Shares stories of eight young men and women whose selfless heroism and refusal to deny their faith led to their becoming saints of the Christian church, including Saint Teresa of the Andes, Saint Stanislaus Kostka, and Blessed Pedro Calungsod.

Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101973936

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Willa Cather by Hermione Lee Pdf

Hermione Lee’s provocative and influential biography provides a sensitive reappraisal of a marvelous and often underrated writer. The Willa Cather she reveals here was a Nebraskan who spent much of her life in self-imposed exile from the prairies she celebrated in O Pioneers! and My Antonia, a woman whose life was riddled with the tension between masculine and feminine, and a writer whose naturalness of style disguised exquisite artistry. By exposing the contradictions that lie at the heart of much of Cather’s life and work, Lee locates new layers of meaning and places her firmly at the forefront of the modern literary tradition that was taking shape in her time.