Willa Cather
My Antonia - The Troll Garden - Selected Short Stories
Leather Bound
(Dorset Press Aug. 16, 1995)
, 1ST edition
Willa Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. This book includes three Cather novels: 1) My Ántonia (1918) - is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century, as children. Both the pioneers who first break the prairie sod for farming, as well as of the harsh but fertile land itself, feature in this American novel. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. This novel is considered as Cather's first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting; 2) The Troll Garden (1905) - a collection of short stories; and 3) Selected Short Stories including The Burglar's Christmas, Eric Hermannson's Soul, the Bohemian Girl, and The Sentimentality of William Tavener.
- ISBN
- 0760700311 / 9780760700310
- Weight
- 22.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 6.0 in.
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