O Pioneers!
Willa Cather's first Great Plains novel, is at once a love letter to Nebraska and the tale of a remarkable heroine who remains resilient in the face of tragedy.
‘She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers’ Observer
Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm when her father dies early. In spite of her brothers’ doubts, her ambitious vision for the land comes to fruition, but the price of success appears to be a small, quiet life. Then the equilibrium of country life is jeopardised by the return of Alexandra’s brother Emil and her childhood confidant, Carl Linstrum.
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October 29, 2019WILLA CATHER was born in Virginia in 1873, and was about nine years old when her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and finally to New York City. There she joined McClure’s magazine. After meeting the author Sarah Orne Jewett, she decided to quit journalism and devote herself full time to fiction. Her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge, appeared in 1912, but her place in American literature was established with her first Nebraska novel, O Pioneers!, published in 1913, followed by her most famous pioneer novel, My Antonia, in 1918. In 1922 she won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours. Her other novels include Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on…
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather; Introduction by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
My Antonia
Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
Coming, Aphrodite
Willa Cather
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Willa Cather; edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout
My Antonia
Willa Cather
Willa Cather In Europe
Willa Cather
Willa Cather On Writing
Willa Cather