My Antonia: Illustrated

Publisher Marketing: My Antonia, first published in 1918, is considered one of the best works of Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel is a fictional book of memoirs by Jim Burden, about Antonia, an immigrant girl whom he grew up in the American West. The novel is based on Cathers personal experience, as she, like the character Jim, also moved to Nebraska when young. Also many of the events, characters and settings of the novel are based on her own childhood experiences. My Antonia was enthusiastically received in 1918 when it was first published and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. Today, it is considered as her first masterpiece. It brought place forward almost as if it were one of the characters, while at the same time playing upon the universality of the emotions, which in turn promoted regional American literature as a valid part of mainstream literature. My Antonia is clearly an elegy to those families who built new lives west of the Mississippi River and highlights the role of women pioneers in particular. Furthermore, Cather was very nontraditional in her characters choice. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Cather chose to write about everyday people in the American West, focusing on the lives and concerns of average Nebraskans, including European immigrants. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting, providing a rare and wonderful glimpse into the lives of the early white settlers of the American West. My Antonia is a selection of The Big Read, The National Endowment for the Arts' community-wide reading program. Mogul Classics is proud to offer you the best edition of this literary classic featuring one of the most acclaimed books of the 20th century. Review Citations: Booklist 09/01/2007 pg. 139 (EAN 9780786168545, Compact Disc) Ingram Paperback Advance 03/01/2005 pg. 63 (EAN 9780451529725, Mass Market Paperbound) School Library Journal 03/01/2004 (EAN 9781400100743, Other) Newsweek 10/29/2007 pg. 16 (EAN 9780140187649, Paperback) Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 96 (EAN 9780140187649, Paperback) Library Journal 02/15/1995 (EAN 9780803214682, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 111 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 157 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 734 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 90 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 900 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 125 (EAN 9780679447276, Hardcover) Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 101 (EAN 9780140283273, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 02/24/2014 (EAN 9781629230702, Compact Disc) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 594 (EAN 9780395755143, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1992 pg. 674 (EAN 9780395083567, Paperback) Booklist 01/15/1992 pg. 910 (EAN 9780395083567, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1992 pg. 674 (EAN 9780395075142, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1997 pg. 625 (EAN 9780395075142, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1995 pg. 111 (EAN 9780395075142, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Cather, Willa A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Willa Cather's work was profoundly influenced by her upbringing in rural Nebraska. During her young adulthood Cather proved herself intelligent and capable, initially training for a career as a medical doctor, but discovered a love of, and talent for, writing while attending the University of Nebraska. Following graduation, Cather worked as a journalist for several women's magazines before becoming a high school teacher; an opportunity work as an editor at McClure's provided Cather with her first chance to publish as the magazine serialized her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, to critical acclaim. This was soon followed by works that have since become best-loved American classics, including My ?ntonia, The Song of the Lark, and her Pulitzer-Prize winner, One of Ours. Cather died in 1947 at the age of 73.