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O Pioneers!
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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O Pioneers!
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The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it.
To the anger of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, following the death of their father. As the years pass, Alexandra rises heroically to the challenge, finding strength in the savage beauty of the land even as loneliness and personal tragedies crowd in.
A rapturous work of understated lyricism, Willa Cather's 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie is also the story of what it means to be American.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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O Pioneers! by Willa Cather is praised for its richly sensuous and laconic prose, which vividly brings to life the characters and landscapes with a profound sense of love. Critics commend her ability to evoke a tangible, imaginative world, merging beauty with underlying pessimism, creating a profound emotional impact.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241338353
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 August 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 148g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and moved to Nebraska, with its wide open plains and immigrant farming communities, at the age of nine. This landscape would deeply affect her later writing. She attended university and became a journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh, and then a magazine editor in New York. Her first major novel, O Pioneers!, appeared in 1913 and was followed by two more in her prairie trilogy, The Song of the Lark and My ntonia, as well as her masterpiece Death Comes for the Archbishop. She lived with the editor Edith Lewis for thirty-nine years until her death in 1947.
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