num_pages: 232
description: Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia.
language: English
title: My Ántonia
titlecomplete: My Ántonia (Great Plains Trilogy, #3)
characters: Ántonia Shimerda, Jim Burden, Emmaline Burden, Ambrosch Shimerda, Josiah Burden, Otto Fuchs, Mrs. Shimerda, Jake Marpole, Lena Lingard, Mr. Shimerda
genres: American, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, School, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 134631
places: Nebraska
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: One Book One Nebraska
publisher: iUniverse