My Antonia
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (632 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1511827823 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 142 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Exceptional story, great narrator!" according to Dutch. This is a truly phenomenal story with a great narrator. The orphan Jim from Virginia is taken to live on his grandfather's farm in Nebraska, where he meets the titular Bohemian girl he would never forget. For Jim, Antonia represents the (joyfully) haunting permanence about his past, youth and the simple joys of living on the prairie. Even after he parts from her, s. Antonia! Lacy I dearly loved this book! I now know exactly what it was like to live somewhere I'll never live, during a time ( in the past ) that I can't ever live in! I know, in beautiful ,descriptive detail exactly what it looked and felt like, there and then. And much of the time, my heart was full , in my chest, reading about how these people felt about each other. How I wis. "A look at early Great Plains ecology and human occupation" according to Emily Branscome. Willa Cather presents a wonderful story of life on the Great Plains as experienced by early settlers. Her descriptions of the plant and animal lifefound by homesteaders are a valuable record of Plains ecology as it is impacted by human occupation. Beautiful writing and captivating story, itshould be required reading in our school systems.
First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great m
As fate would have it, the Shimerdas have taken up residence in farm neighboring the Burdens’. This memoir makes up the bulk of the novel. Jim Burden, a successful New York City lawyer, gives an acquaintance a memoir of his Nebraska childhood in the form of a recollection of their mutual friend, Ántonia Shimerda. On the train out west, Jim gets his first glimpse of the Shimerdas, a Bohemian immigrant family traveling in the same direction. Jim makes fast friends with the Shimerda children, especially Ántonia, who is nearest to him in age and eager to learn English. Jim tutors Ántonia, and the two of them spend much of the autumn exploring their new landscape together.. Jim first arrives in Nebraska at the age of ten, when he makes the trip west to live with his grandparents after finding himself an orphan in Virginia