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2. My Ántonia - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Willa Cather - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. My Antonia (film) - Wikipedia

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   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 .

5. Annie Sadilek Pavelka - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Antonia's Line - Wikipedia

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   Antonia's Line (Original title: Antonia) is a 1995 Dutch feminist film written and directed by Marleen Gorris.The film, described as a "feminist fairy tale", [3] [4] [5] tells the story of the independent Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy) who, after returning to the anonymous Dutch village of her birth, establishes and nurtures a close-knit matriarchal community.

7. O Pioneers! - Wikipedia

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   Alexandra Bergson: the main character of the book. A strong-willed and intelligent woman. She was given the farm by her father John Bergson and over the next 16 years makes it very prosperous. She is about 40 years old in the second part of the book. Emil Bergson: the youngest child of John Bergson and Alexandra's mother. An intelligent ...

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9. Talk:My Ántonia - Wikipedia

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   Regardless of how the name was or might have been pronounced in Czech, Slovak or any Bohemian dialect, Cather gave clear instructions in the book on how it was to be pronounced in the novel: "The Bohemian name Antonia is strongly accented on the first syllable, like the English name Anthony, and the 'i' is, of course, given the sound of long 'e'.