The Great Plains Collection Three Volumes In One O Pioneers The Song Of The Lark My Ántonia

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528798020

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The Great Plains Collection - Three Volumes in One by Willa Cather Pdf

It’s nearing the end of the nineteenth century, and prairie life in the Great Plains of America is harsh and unforgiving. Willa Cather’s writing effortlessly captures the hearts and minds of immigrants as they make a new life in the states. The Great Plains Collection is the complete set of Willa Cather’s masterful trilogy in one volume. At the turn of the twentieth century, European immigrants were settling into North America. Prairie life was a challenge and this collection of books depicts the stories of three characters as they find their footing against the glorious backdrop of Nebraska countryside. Written between 1913 and 1918, this volume contains the novels: - O Pioneers! - The Song of the Lark - My Ántonia Follow Cather’s protagonists, Alexandra Bergson, Thea Kronborg, and Jim Burden as they develop successful farmland, become accomplished artists, and find happiness within family life. Featuring strong female protagonists, romance, and truthful accounts of early American life, this collection would make an ideal read for those interested in the history of immigration. This edition contains an introductory excerpt from H. L. Mencken.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Great Plains
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1528720288

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The Great Plains Collection - Three Volumes in One;O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, & My Ántonia by Willa Cather Pdf

It's nearing the end of the nineteenth century, and prairie life in the Great Plains of America is harsh and unforgiving. Willa Cather's writing effortlessly captures the hearts and minds of immigrants as they make a new life in the states. The Great Plains Collection is the complete set of Willa Cather's masterful trilogy in one volume. At the turn of the twentieth century, European immigrants were settling into North America. Prairie life was a challenge and this collection of books depicts the stories of three characters as they find their footing against the glorious backdrop of Nebraska countryside. Written between 1913 and 1918, this volume contains the novels: - O Pioneers! - The Song of the Lark - My Ántonia Follow Cather's protagonists, Alexandra Bergson, Thea Kronborg, and Jim Burden as they develop successful farmland, become accomplished artists, and find happiness within family life. Featuring strong female protagonists, romance, and truthful accounts of early American life, this collection would make an ideal read for those interested in the history of immigration. This edition contains an introductory excerpt from H. L. Mencken.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393522938

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My Ántonia (Norton Critical Editions) 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. Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather’s own (Red Cloud), My Ántonia tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. Ántonia 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 Ántonia, 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.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782322145522

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Willa Cather My Antonia by Willa Cather Pdf

Willa Cather My Ántonia : Unabridged Text with Introduction, Biography and Analysis My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "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 the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. Both the pioneers who first break the prairie sod for farming, as well as of the harsh but fertile land itself, feature in this American novel. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. This novel is considered Cather's first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting. This edition includes the full original version of the Willa Cather's book and provides other valuable features under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, including a commented introduction, helpful bibliography, author's biography, notes, references, and much more.

Author : O. Henry,James Joyce,Anton Chekhov,Willa Cather,George Gissing,Gustave Flaubert,Sherwood Anderson
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788577773237

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7 Best Short Stories: Work by O. Henry,James Joyce,Anton Chekhov,Willa Cather,George Gissing,Gustave Flaubert,Sherwood Anderson Pdf

Money - and the social effects of having it or not - is too big a theme in people's daily lives to be ignored by literature. The writers gave the most varied interpretations and looked from the most different angles to the human relationship with money - but the final thought is always up to the reader. The critic August Nemo selected seven classic short stories on this subject: - Counterparts by James Joyce - The Romance of a Busy Broker by O. Henry - Sleepy by Anton Chekhov - Neighbour Rosicky by Willa Cather - An Old Maid's Triumph by George Gissing - The Egg by Sherwood Anderson - A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert

Author : Jeffrey H. Hacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317456612

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The Gilded Age and Dawn of the Modern by Jeffrey H. Hacker Pdf

The Gilded Age and Dawn of the Modern: 1877-1919, a new title in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, American Themes, provides insights and analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the Gilded Age and early twentieth century. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes. The Gilded Age and Dawn of the Modern begins with an interdisciplinary chronology that identifies, defines, and places in context the notable historical events, literary works, authors' lives, and cultural landmarks of the period. This is followed by a comprehensive overview essay that summarizes the era's major historical trends, social movements, cultural and artistic themes, literary voices, and enduring works as reflections of each other and the spirit of the times. The core content comprises 20-30 articles on representative writers of the period, along with excerpts from essential literary works that highlight a historical theme, sociocultural movement, or the confluence of the two. These excerpts serve the Common Core emphasis on "informational texts from a broad range of cultures and periods", including "stories, drama, poetry, and literary nonfiction".

Author : Heather Huyck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442264182

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Doing Women's History in Public by Heather Huyck Pdf

A complete guide to interpreting women’s history. Women’s history is everywhere, not only in historic house museums named for women but also in homes named for famous men, museums of every conceivable kind, forts and battlefields, even ships, mines, and in buckets. Women’s history while present at every museum and historic site remains less fully interpreted in spite of decades of vibrant and expansive scholarship. Doing Women’s History in Public: A Handbook for Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites connects that scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-- the objects, architecture and landscapes-- in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and center interpretation on the women active in them. With numerous examples that focus on all women and girls, it appropriately includes everyone, for women intersect with every other human group. This book provides arguments, sources (written, oral, and visual), and tools for finding women’s history, preserving it, and interpreting it with the public. It uses the framework of Significance (importance), Knowledge Base (research in primary, secondary, and tertiary sources), and Tangible Resources (the preserved physical embodiment of history in objects, architecture, and landscapes). Discusses traditional and technology-assisted interpretation and provides Tools to implement Doing Women’s History in Public. Using a hospitality model, museums and historic sites are the locales where we assemble, learn from each other, and take our insights into a more gender-shared future.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803214308

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Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather Pdf

The jacket of the first edition of Obscure Destinies announced ?Three New Stories of the West,? heralding Willa Cather?s return to what many thought of as ?her? territory?the Great Plains. These three stories, ?Neighbour Rosicky,? ?Old Mrs. Harris,? and ?Two Friends,? reflected her return to the well of memory that had inspired the books that made her reputation. The WillaøCather Scholarly Edition presents for the first time the three stories in their historical and biographical context, with an interpretive historical essay and detailed explanatory notes. The textual essay and apparatus establish the definitive text and trace Cather?s changes through newly discovered prepublication versions.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 807484918X

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The Prairee Trilogy by Willa Cather Pdf

Author : Shannon McKenna Schmidt,Joni Rendon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781426203435

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Novel Destinations by Shannon McKenna Schmidt,Joni Rendon Pdf

It’s often said that a good book takes us somewhere we’ve never been before, and here’s the proof: a book-lover’s Baedeker to more than 500 literary locales across the United States and Europe. Novel Destinations invites readers to follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, discover the scenes that sparked their imaginations, glimpse the lives they led, and share a bit of the experiences they transformed so eloquently into print. If you’re looking to indulge in literary adventure, you’ll find all the inspiration and information you need here, along with behind-the-scenes stories such as these: After Ernest Hemingway survived two near-fatal plane crashes during an African safari, he perused his obituaries and sipped champagne on a canal-side terrace in Venice. Washington Irving's wisteria-draped cottage in the Hudson Valley was once occupied by members of the Van Tassel family, immortalized in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A mysterious incident at a stone tower near Dublin made such a vivid impression on James Joyce that he drew on it for the opening scene of Ulysses. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle consulted on the mystery of Agatha Christie's 1926 disappearance before she resurfaced under an assumed name in northern England. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables was inspired by a seaside manse in Salem, Massachusetts, infamous witch trials in which his ancestor played a role.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education, Humanistic
ISBN : NWU:35556037056090

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Humanities by Anonim Pdf

Author : University of Wyoming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Science
ISBN : PSU:000065813591

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University of Wyoming Publications by University of Wyoming Pdf

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241338339

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My Ántonia by Willa Cather Pdf

The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest heroine at its heart Jim and Ántonia meets as children in the wide open plains of Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century. Jim leaves for college and a career in the east, while Ántonia stays at home, dedicating herself to her farm and family. As the years roll by, Jim will come to view Ántonia as the embodiment of the prairie itself - tough, spirited and enduring, despite the hardness and loneliness of pioneer life. Willa Cather's beautiful novel is a celebration of the Nebraskan prairie she loved she much, and a powerful depiction of a pivotal era in the making of America.