Willa Cather
O Pioneers!
“One of the century’s greatest American writers.” -The Observer
A Pulitzer Prize–winning novel celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2013, this is a tale of people struggling to carve out a life in the wilderness while battling ever-duplicitous human nature.
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather's first great novel, is the classic American story of pioneer life as embodied by one remarkable woman and her singular devotion to the land. Alexandra Bergson's father, John, is dying. He entrusts his farmstead on a desolate stretch of plain to her, rather than to her brothers. Faced with the rigors of frontier living, droughts, and penury, Alexandra only becomes more determined to carry on her father's legacy and battles through remortgaging the farm and adopting new techniques. In this unforgettable story, Cather conveys both the physical realities of the landscape, as well as the mythic sweep of the transformation of the frontier, more faithfully and perhaps more fully than any other work of fiction.
Written in 1913, O Pioneers! was the first in Cather's "Great Plains" trilogy, and it was followed by The Song of the Lark and My Antonia.
- ISBN
- 151143774X / 9781511437745
- Pages
- 196
- Weight
- 12.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.4 in.
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