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My Ántonia (/ ˈ æ n t ə n i ə / AN-tə-nee-ə) is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, which is considered one of her best works.. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the ...
Willa Sibert Cather (/ ˈ k æ ð ər /; [1] born Wilella Sibert Cather; [2] December 7, 1873 [A] – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia.
"'It Ain't My Prairie': Gender, Power, and Narrative in My Ántonia" in Sharon O'Brien, ed., New Essays on Willa Cather's My Ántonia (1999) "Fear of a Queer Prairie: Figures of the Body and/as the Nation in Willa Cather's Early Fiction" in Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter and Review 42.2 (Fall 1998):
My Antonia is a 1995 American drama television film directed by Joseph Sargent and written and produced by Victoria Riskin, based on the 1918 novel of the same name by Willa Cather. It stars Jason Robards , Eva Marie Saint , and Neil Patrick Harris .
I consider both Social Studies and Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz to be my literary comfort food, despite a very uncomfortable memory involving myself and the author. I was 23 and had somehow ...
The story was written by Cather solely to earn money while she was writing My Ántonia. [2] It was informed by her own journalistic experience at McClure's and her subsequent 'caustic' stance towards muckrakers. [3] It was also influenced by her work for the Home Monthly and the Pittsburgh Leader. [4]
When Annie was a young woman, she - like Antonia in the novel - returned to Webster County, pregnant, after being left by a railroad employee, James William Murphy. Back in her hometown, she gave birth to her daughter in 1892. In 1896, she married John Pavelka (Cuzak in the novel), with whom she had twelve children, three of whom died in childhood.
do you know of any online literary critics of this book? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 205.188.117.68 (talk • contribs) 21:38 23 September 2005. Are you looking for a critique or analysis?