My Ántonia: A 1918 novel by American writer Willa Cather, and the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.

My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It 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 as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century.
• Both the pioneers who first b...