My Ántonia by Willa Cather

"My Ántonia" by Willa Cather is a novel published in 1918. The story follows orphaned Jim Burden from Virginia and Ántonia Shimerda, daughter of Bohemian immigrants, as they arrive as children in pioneer Nebraska. Their friendship deepens through shared adventures and hardships on the prairie, including a brutal first winter and family tragedy. As years pass and their paths diverge—Jim pursuing education, Ántonia working as a hired girl—the bonds forged in childhood continue shaping their lives in profound ways. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
Title My Ántonia
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_%C3%81ntonia
Credits Jon Noring, Lori Watrous-de Versterre, José Menéndez and Joshua Hutchinson
Reading Level Reading ease score: 80.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Nebraska -- Fiction
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- Fiction
Subject Western stories
Subject Domestic fiction
Subject Friendship -- Fiction
Subject Married women -- Fiction
Subject Farm life -- Fiction
Subject Women pioneers -- Fiction
Subject Women immigrants -- Fiction
Subject Farmers' spouses -- Fiction
Subject Czech Americans -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 19810
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Mar 11, 2025
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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