My Antonia Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486282406 ISBN-13: 9780486282404 Publisher: Dover Publications
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 1994 Annotation: The story of Antonia Shimerda is told by on of the friends of her childhood, Jim Burden, an orphaned boy from Virginia. Though he leaves the prairie, Jim never forgets the Bohemian girl who so profoundly influenced his life. An immigrant child of immigrant parents, Antonia's girlhood is spent working to help her parents wrest a living from the untamed land. Though in later years she suffers betrayal and desertion, through all the hardships of her life she preserves a valor of spirit that no hardship can daunt or break.When Jim Burden sees her again after many years he finds her ""a rich mine of life"," a figure who has turned adversity into a particular kind of triumph in the true spirit of the pioneer. Click for more in this series: Dover Thrift Editions |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 94027053 |
Age Level: 11-UP |
Grade Level: 6-UP |
Lexile Measure: 990(Not Available) |
Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.26" W x 8.24" L (0.33 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Nebraska |
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 713 Reading Level: 6.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: My ntonia evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather's childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather's earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the story of ntonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants. Her story is told through the eyes of Jim Burden, a neighbor who will befriend ntonia, teach her English, and follow the remarkable story of her life. |
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