"This early novel is now held to be a very critical and pivotal one in
the whole development of the novelist, and this new edition provides . .
. a fine printing for readers".-Choice. "A definitive edition of
Cather's second novel . . . [that] sets a high standard of quality. .
. . David Stouck's comprehensive and cogent historical essay . . .
captures not only the life of Cather's text but also provides insight
into Cather's imagination and artistic process".-Western American
Literature. This is the definitive text of O Pioneers! that appeared in
the clothbound Willa Cather Scholarly Edition published by the
University of Nebraska Press in 1992. Adhering to the standards set by
the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association,
the editors have been faithful in every detail to Cather's intentions as
she prepared the manuscript for the first 1913 edition. Printer's
errors, spelling of some foreign names, and inconsistencies in dialect
and certain stylistic matters, as well as Cather's later corrections,
have all been addressed and corrected. Cather's novel of life on the
Nebraska frontier was a critical and popular success (over forty
printings) and still speaks to readers today. Susan Rosowski and Charles
Mignon are professors of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Kathleen Danker is an assistant professor of English at South Dakota
State University. David Stouck is a professor of English at Simon Fraser
University.