My Ántonia;With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken

My Ántonia;With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken / Willa Cather

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Read & Co. Classics
Año de edición:
2011
ISBN:
9781447403258
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My Ántonia is a 1918 novel by American writer Willa Cather. The last book of her Great Plains trilogy, it is considered to be among her best works and proceeds O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel continues the tale of the two children brought to the pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century: Jim Burden, an orphan from Virginia, and Ántonia Shimerda.Cather’s My Ántonia is her masterpiece and constitutes a must-read for fans of her fantastic frontier fiction.Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great Plains. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her World War I novel One of Ours (1922). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from Willa Cather by H. L. Mencken.

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