My Antonia (Townsend Library)

by Willa Cather

Overview

When orphaned, ten-year-old Jim Burden arrives in Nebraska to live on his grandparents� farm, he doesn�t know what to expect.

The Great Plains are so vast that he feels overwhelmed . . . marooned . . . blotted out. And what should he make of his new neighbors, the Shimerdas? They don�t speak English, and their ways are foreign to him. Yet their fourteen-year-old daughter, Antonia, is pretty, high-spirited . . . and eager for Jim to teach her English. Will Jim adjust to his strange new surroundings? Or will he continue to long for a home he can never regain?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149747054
Publisher:	Townsend Press
Publication date:	06/13/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	346
File size:	730 KB

About the Author

Willa Cather (1873-1948) is best known for her books O Pioneers! and My Antonia. She was born in Virginia and moved with her family to Nebraska before she was ten. This move later provided the setting for her best-known novels which focus on immigrant life on the prairie. As the Pulitzer Prize-winner for One of Ours, novelist, and writer of short fiction and poetry, Cather is known as a major American author.

Date of Birth:

December 7, 1873

Date of Death:

April 27, 1947

Place of Birth:

Winchester, Virginia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., University of Nebraska, 1895