![]() ![]() stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. My ntonia, considered by many scholars to be her first masterpiece, tells the story of a young orphan, Jim Burden, who is sent from Virginia to Nebraska. In the end Antonia is exactly what Burden says she is: a woman who "had that something which fires the imagination, could. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and disappointed admirer, we follow Antonia from farm to town and through hardships both natural and human, surviving everything from poverty to a failed romance-and not only surviving, but triumphing. My Ántonia (Paperback) Published August 1st 2005 by Barnes Noble Classics. We first meet Antonia Shimerda as the young daughter of a Bohemian immigrant who in time will be driven to suicide by the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. My Ántonia is the final book of Cathers 'prairie trilogy' of novels, preceded by O Pioneers and The Song of the Lark. "No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Antonia." ![]()
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