Historical Fiction
My Ántonia
1818·264 pages
Jim Burden recalls his youth and deep bond with Ántonia Shimerda, a resilient Bohemian immigrant, amid pioneer life on the Nebraska plains.
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Jim Burden recalls his youth and deep bond with Ántonia Shimerda, a resilient Bohemian immigrant, amid pioneer life on the Nebraska plains.
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My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the last novel in the Prairie trilogy, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.My Antonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Antonia. The book's narrator, Jim Burden, arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same train as ...
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Romantic longing and a love affair; out-of-wedlock pregnancy
Violence & gore
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A beating from mistaken identity; slapping and unkindness
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Catholic funeral rites; immigrant faith practices and tensions
Magic & witchcraft
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Immigrant experience, class divides, frontier identity themes
Self-harm / suicide
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A major character's suicide and funeral are central events
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Poverty, harsh labor, abandonment; attempted assault; beating
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