Willa Cather
2) My Antonia
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English
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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...
3) My Ántonia
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English
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Set in rural Nebraska, Willa Cather’s My Ántonia is both the story of an enduring friendship and a brilliant portrayal of the lives of rural pioneers in the late-nineteenth century. Ántonia and her family are from Bohemia and they must endure real hardship and loss to establish a new home in America. But Ántonia is never broken by adversity, and her strength and love of life stays with her childhood friend Jim for years to come, even as...
4) One of Ours
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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"One of Ours" is Willa Cather's Pulitzer prize winning story of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native at the turn of the 20th century. Claude is a young man who finds himself conflicted by the constraints of his overly pious mother and the demands that his father's successful farm places on his education and life. With the country on the brink of World War One, "One of Ours" is an important document of a changing American frontier and the plight of one...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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In Willa Cather's first novel, "Alexander's Bridge", Construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges, Bartley Alexander strays from his wife Winifred to resume his acquaintance with former lover Hilda Burgoyne. The consequence of infidelity is examined in this classic romantic novel.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Here are 564 letters, slightly under 20% of the entire cache, beginning with the funny reports of Red Cloud life she wrote as a teenager in the 1880's, through her college years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist, then novelist, in Pittsburgh and New York, to the painful letters of the 1940's when she despaired of her aging body and the heartbreaking events of WWII.