My Ántonia;With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken

by Willa Cather, H L Mencken (Contribution by)

Overview

My Ántonia is a 1918 novel by American writer Willa Cather. The last book of her Great Plains trilogy, it is considered to be among her best works and proceeds O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.

The novel continues the tale of the two children brought to the pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century: Jim Burden, an orphan from Virginia, and Ántonia Shimerda.

Cather's My Ántonia is her masterpiece and constitutes a must-read for fans of her fantastic frontier fiction.

Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her World War I novel One of Ours (1922). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from Willa Cather by H. L. Mencken.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447403258
Publisher:	Read & Co. Classics
Publication date:	04/22/2011
Series:	Great Plains , #3
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

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