num_pages: 320
description: During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had both known long ago. More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood . . . His mind was full of her that day. He made me see her again, feel her presence, revived all my old affection for her'My Antonia is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman's life on the Nebraska plains, seen through the eyes of her childhood friend, Jim Burden. The beautiful, free-spirited, wild-eyed girl captured Jim's imagination long ago and haunts him still, embodying for him the elemental spirit of the American frontier.In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction.
language: English
title: My Antonia
titlecomplete: My Antonia
characters: Otto Fuchs, Mrs. Shimerda, Ambrosch Shimerda, Jake Marpole, Lena Lingard, Ántonia Shimerda, Mr. Shimerda, Jim Burden, Emmaline Burden, Josiah Burden
genres: Fiction, Classics, Historical, Classic Literature, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, School
ratings_count: 134635
places: Nebraska
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: One Book One Nebraska
publisher: Virago