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By Willa Sibert Cather. MY ÁNTONIA. Illustrated. THE SONG OF THE LARK. O PIONEERS! With colored frontispiece. ALEXANDER'S BRIDGE. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Boston and New York MY ÁNTONIA MY ÁNTONIA BY WILLA SIBERT CATHER Optima dies prima fugit —Virgil. My Antonia by Willa Cather. My Antonia () is the third book in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, which began with O Pioneers! (), and was followed by The Song of the Lark (). My Antonia tells the story of several immigrant families who move to rural Nebraska. Antonia is the eldest daughter of the Shimerdas and is a bold and carefree young woman who becomes the center of narrator Jim Burden's attention. A short summary of Willa Cather's My Ántonia This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of My Ántonia. Search all of SparkNotes Search. Suggestions. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Death of a Salesman My Antonia (SparkNotes Literature Guide).

My Ántonia (Great Plains Trilogy #3), Willa Cather My Ántonia is a novel published in by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "Great Plains trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. Willa Cather was born and raised on the Great Plains and her novel stands as a celebration of the landscape and its settlers (specifically Ántonia, the stoic daughter of a struggling Bohemian. When Willa Cather was writing "My Antonia," she visited her friend, the journalist and war correspondent Elizabeth Sergeant, grabbed an old apothecary jar filled with flowers, set it in the center of an antique table, and explained: "I want my new heroine to be like this--like a rare object in the middle of a table, which one may examine from.

My Ántonia evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather's childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather's earliest novels, written in , it is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants. My Ántonia is a novel by Willa Cather that was first published in Summary Read our full plot summary and analysis of My Ántonia, scene by scene break-downs, and more. My Ántonia. 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. This memoir makes up the bulk of the novel. Jim first arrives in Nebraska at the age of ten, when he makes the trip west to live with his grandparents after.