A soulful and rich portrait of a pioneer woman's simple yet heroic life. Antonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, and family tragedy, she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm.
Antonia works as a servant for her neighbors after her father's death, elopes, and then returns to marry a Bohemian farmer.
Antonia works as a servant for her neighbors after her father's death, elopes, and then returns to marry a Bohemian farmer.
A story of a pioneer woman in whose character the strengths and passions of America's early settlers are memorable rendered.
Antonia works as a servant for her neighbors after her father's death, elopes, and then returns to marry a Bohemian farmer.
by Rogers, Bruce, Cather, Willa
fromNovels and stories of Willa Cather
Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.
The story of a French priest who goes to New Mexico and with another priest win the southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe.
A first publication of the acclaimed writer's personal correspondences includes whimsical teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles with aging…
by Stout, Janis P., Jewell, Andrew W., Cather, Willa
