WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. S. BYATT
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'During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept
returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had both known
long ago. More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to
mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our
childhood . . . His mind was full of her that day. He made me see her
again, feel her presence, revived all my old affection for her.'**
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My Antonia* is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman's life on
the Nebraska plains, seen through the eyes of her childhood friend, Jim
Burden. The beautiful, free-spirited, wild-eyed girl captured Jim's
imagination long ago and haunts him still, embodying for him the
elemental spirit of the American frontier.
In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the
most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction.