Beloved American novelist Willa Cather's nostalgic classic about life
on the Midwest prairie.
Emigrating from Bohemia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, with her family,
Ántonia discovers no white-framed farmhouse or snug barn. Instead, the
cultured Shimerda family finds itself huddled in a primitive sod house
buffeted by the ceaselessly blowing winds on the Midwest prairie. For
her childhood friend Jim Burden, Ántonia comes to embody the elemental
spirit of this frontier. Working alongside men, she survives without
compromising the rich, deep power of her nature. And Willa Cather's lush
descriptions of the rolling Nebraska grasslands interweave with the
blossoming of a woman in the early days of the twentieth century in a
novel that is an epic chronicle of America's past. The novel Cather
herself considered her best, My Ántonia is one of those rare, highly
prized works of great literature that not only enriches its readers but
immerses them in a tale superbly told.
With an Introduction by Marilyn Sides
and an Afterword by Terese Svoboda