Title: My Ántonia
First published: August 1, 2005
Description: My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the last novel in the Prairie trilogy, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.My Antonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Antonia. The book's narrator, Jim Burden, arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same train as the Shimerdas, as he goes to live with his grandparents after his parents have died. Jim develops strong feelings for Antonia, something between a crush and a filial bond, and the reader views Antonia's life, including its attendant struggles and triumphs, through that lens.
Subjects: Literature, Frontier and pioneer life, Czech Americans, Married women, Friendship, Women immigrants, Fiction, Farmers' spouses, Women pioneers, Classic Literature, Farm life, Love stories, My Ántonia (Cather, Willa), Farmers' spouse, Romans, Vie des pionniers, Women, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Nebraska, fiction, Married people, fiction, Fiction, westerns, Friendship, fiction, Czechoslovakian Americans, Junge Frau, Siedler, Friendship in children, Immigrants, History, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, Fictional Works Publication Type, Nebraska -- Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- Fiction, Western stories, Domestic fiction, Friendship -- Fiction, Married women -- Fiction, Farm life -- Fiction, Women pioneers -- Fiction, Women immigrants -- Fiction, Farmers’ spouses -- Fiction, Czech Americans -- Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Large type books, Fiction, historical, Fiction, general, Iowa, fiction, Fiction, sagas, Juvenile literature, Pioneers, American literature, Study and teaching (Secondary), Pionniers, Ouvrages pour la jeunesse, Immigrantes, Romans, nouvelles, Agriculteurs, Conjoints, Américains d'origine tchèque, Pionnières, Femmes mariées, Vie à la ferme, Classics, Children's fiction, Frontier and pioneer life--fiction, Farmers' spouses--fiction, Women pioneers--fiction, Farm life--fiction, Women immigrants--fiction, Czech americans--fiction, Married women--fiction, Ps3505.a87 m8 2003b, 813/.52, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Italian language, Etymology, Names, Suffixes and prefixes, Geographical Names, Linguistic geography, American Novelists, Czechs, Immigrants in literature, In literature, Americanization, Biography, American fiction, rural life, Recreational Reading, Readers (Secondary), Juvenile fiction
Places: Nebraska
Time periods: Late 19th to early 20th centuries