O pioneers! and other tales of the prairie
By: Willa Cather.
Edition: 1st New York Public Library collector's ed.
Series: The New York Public Library collector's edition
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Swedish Americans -- Fiction.; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.; Women immigrants -- Fiction.; Women farmers -- Fiction.; Women pioneers -- Fiction.; Farm life -- Fiction.; Nebraska -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Gathered together in this unique collection are the novel O Pioneers! - Cather's famous double elegy to the land and to the pioneer spirit - and two of her greatest shorter works, "A Lost Lady and "The Bohemian Girl." With O Pioneers!, Cather created something bracing and new in American literature, a boldly imaginative and compassionate tribute to the men and women who struggled to make a life on the forbidding, open contours of the Western prairies.

And in her radiant heroine Alexandra Bergson she brought to life a resolute and passionate woman who has become one of our most beloved literary figures. In this volume, Alexandra is joined by two other remarkable women: the vivacious, restive Clara Vavricka Ericson of the short story "The Bohemian Girl," and the enchanting but curiously baffling Marian Forrester of A Lost Lady, a luminous novella that for many critics and readers stands as the most exquisite example of Cather's art."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: The Bohemian girl; title: O Pioneers!; title: A lost lady.