02268cam a2200361 4500 1091247374 TxAuBib 20231228120000.0 961126s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96223945 //r97 9780679447276 067944727X (OCoLC)35118114 TxAuBib Cather, Willa, 1873-1947,. My Antonia / Willa Cather ; with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1996. xxix, 272 pages ; 22 cm. Prairie ; 3 Includes bibliographical references (p. xix). Of Ántonia, the passionate and majestic central character in Willa Cather’s greatest novel, the narrator, Jim Burden, says that she left "images in the mind that did not fade that grew stronger with time." The same is true of the book in which Cather enshrines her heroine. On one level, My Ántonia is a straightforward narrative, written in limpid prose of uncanny descriptive accuracy, about the struggles endured by a family of immigrant pioneers and the small community that surrounds them on the unsettled Nebraska plains. On another, it is a novel that represents a perfect marriage of form and feeling. In its magnificent tableaux of human beings caught in the toils of an abundant and overpowering natural world, and in the quiet, understated sympathy it displays for life of every sort, My Ántonia is a novel that effortlessly encompasses history and wilderness and the destiny of the individualeven as it lovingly and unsentimentally portrays a woman whose robust spirit and enduring warmth make her emblematic of what Cather most admired in the American people. 20231228. Frontier and pioneer life Nebraska Fiction. Farmers' spouses Nebraska Fiction. Women pioneers Nebraska Fiction. Married women Nebraska Fiction. Farm life Nebraska Fiction. Nebraska Fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. fast Prairie ; 3. TXDAP